Summary: The article reviews China's progress in comprehensive law-based governance, highlighting the Central Conference on Comprehensive Law-Based Governance and General Secretary Xi Jinping's instructions to open a new situation in building a rule-of-law China. It cites officials such as Li Mingzheng, Vice Minister of Justice, and Teng Jiguo, Deputy Secretary-General of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, on administrative law enforcement, public legal services, and grassroots dispute resolution. The piece details legislative achievements, including the Public Interest Litigation Law and AI governance measures, and emphasizes the integration of law-based governance with Party rule and reform. It also discusses judicial fairness, intellectual property protection, and the balance of leniency and strictness in law enforcement, with quotes from officials like Miao Shengming of the Supreme People's Procuratorate.
Summary: Danzhai County, a former national poverty alleviation key county in Guizhou Province, has pursued comprehensive rural revitalization since being lifted out of poverty in 2019, leveraging its tea industry, ethnic culture, and natural ecology. The county developed a market-oriented, full-chain tea industry, with output value exceeding 1.2 billion yuan in 2025, and built a "one primary, two supplementary" characteristic industrial system. Cultural tourism integration, exemplified by the "Silversmith Village" and "Dream Butterfly Garden," has made ethnic culture and ecology economically productive, with 2.3335 million domestic tourists received from January to August this year. The Cloud Town scenic area, initially supported by a caring enterprise and the National Audit Office, has transitioned to local operations, emphasizing sustainable management. The National Audit Office has dispatched five rounds of cadres since 2016, and the county now focuses on combining external support with internal capacity building, shifting from "passively receiving aid" to "actively developing."
Summary: Premier Li Qiang of the State Council will pay an official visit to Thailand from November 13 to 15 at the invitation of Thai Prime Minister Anutin, according to a Foreign Ministry spokesperson's announcement on November 11. He will then travel to Manila, the Philippines, from November 15 to 16 to attend the 29th China-ASEAN Summit at the invitation of Philippine President Marcos, rotating chair of ASEAN.
Summary: Wang Huning, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, met in Beijing with Cuban Party and government special envoy Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla. Wang stated that under the leadership of President Xi Jinping and President Miguel Díaz-Canel, China-Cuba relations have reached a new height, and China's policy of long-term friendship with Cuba has remained constant and unchanged. He affirmed China's firm support for Cuba's just struggle against sanctions, blockades, and foreign interference. Rodríguez expressed Cuba's gratitude for China's support and its willingness to jointly build a Cuba-China community with a shared future. Wang Dongfeng and others attended the meeting.
Summary: The article reports on Hengyang County, Hunan, implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session by establishing a "field whistleblower" mechanism for supervising high-standard farmland construction. Luo Xiaocheng, a post-80s new-generation farmer, serves as a supervisor, conducting daily "field patrols" to check construction quality and report issues to the town's discipline inspection commission. The county's Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervision Commission launched this mechanism to address manpower shortages and integrity risks, forming mass supervision teams of village cadres, large grain-growing households, and villagers. Supervisors also participate in project design discussions, such as suggesting pre-buried drainage pipes in low-lying areas. As of October, the county has established 95 such supervision teams, with officials like Liu Donglin, Yan Wei, and Chen Yun emphasizing the mechanism's role in coordinating discipline inspection, industry regulation, and mass supervision.
Summary: The article reports on China's three-year special campaign to strengthen financial and accounting supervision, citing General Secretary Xi Jinping's instructions that Party committees must assume political responsibility and strictly enforce financial and economic discipline. It details major cases, including fraudulent agricultural subsidy funds in Anxiang County, Hunan, and penalties against PricewaterhouseCoopers Zhongtian for audit failures in the Evergrande project. The piece highlights the establishment of a "five-in-one" supervision system and coordination with disciplinary inspection organs, with over 12,000 institutional documents formulated or revised. A Ministry of Finance official is quoted as saying the goal is to keep the "sharp sword" of supervision hanging high to safeguard the Party Central Committee's major decisions.
Summary: The news center for the 2026 APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting Week was inaugurated in Shenzhen on November 11. The 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting will be held in Shenzhen from November 18 to 19. The center is located in Hall 2 of the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center (Futian), covering about 15,000 square meters. It includes functional zones such as a media work area, technical support area, press conference area, and a "Journalists' Home" service area. It will serve nearly 5,000 Chinese and foreign journalists covering the event.
Summary: The article discusses the ninth edition of a guide focused on the theory of more scientifically and effectively confining power within the cage of institutions. It emphasizes the importance of institutional constraints on power as a core principle. The content appears to be a theoretical exposition rather than a report on specific officials or events. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Central Publicity Team for studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee delivered presentations on November 11 in Beijing, the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, and the provinces of Hebei, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Hunan, Guizhou, and Xizang. Yin Li, Li Ganjie, Li Shulei, Qi Yu, Huai Jinpeng, Deng Maosheng, Liang Huiling, Qu Qingshan, Wang Jiang, Hu Heping, Chen Yangyong, Xie Chuntao, and Li Guoxi each delivered reports focusing on General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech and the "Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Several Major Issues Concerning Persistently Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party." They emphasized treating the study and implementation of the plenary session's spirit as a major political task, firmly upholding the Two Establishments, resolutely achieving the Two Upholds, and persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. Several speakers also conducted grassroots presentations and exchanges with cadres, masses, teachers, students, and workers at local communities, universities, and enterprises.
Summary: The article is an authoritative interview on implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, focusing on the "Decision" to persistently and continuously advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. It emphasizes that strengthening Party spirit is the fundamental task, with measures including loyalty education, tempering Party spirit in practice, and strict cadre selection and supervision. The response details plans to forge a high-quality cadre contingent, promote a correct view of political achievements, and improve mechanisms for connecting Party organizations at all levels, including grassroots and emerging fields. The interview underscores the need for higher standards and concrete measures to ensure the Party never changes its nature, color, or flavor.
Summary: The article reports on the completion and handover of the first phase of Malaysia's East Coast Rail Link (ECRL), a flagship Belt and Road project built using Chinese technical standards, which will begin operations in mid-December. It details how the construction team overcame geological difficulties by choosing a bridge over a tunnel to protect the Gombak Quartz Ridge and reduced forest reserve impact by nearly 90 percent, while also building passages for wildlife. The piece highlights the "China-Malaysia Railway Talent Training Program," which has trained nearly 3,000 people, including 66 graduates who joined the operations team, with Malaysian Minister of Transport Anthony Loke praising the trainees as important technical talents. The article quotes project officials and Malaysian Rail Link CEO Darwis on how the railway will cut travel times, boost the east coast's investment attractiveness, and promote balanced regional development. It concludes by noting that multiple economic parks and logistics hubs are advancing along the route, with Bai Yinzhan, Deputy Commander of the ECRL project, emphasizing that the connectivity shortens both physical distance and the development gap between regions.
Summary: The article, authored by the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, argues that trade must become an inclusive engine for global development and shared prosperity amid rising economic uncertainty and geopolitical tensions. It highlights China's development as an example of trade empowering growth, citing its zero-tariff measures for least developed and African countries. The piece stresses that market access alone is insufficient, requiring economic transformation, capacity building, and policy support to convert opportunities into sustained development gains. It calls for trade to create quality employment, reduce emissions, and benefit women and impoverished populations. The author concludes by urging all parties to use the CIIE to deepen cooperation and turn market opportunities into stronger production capacity and livelihood security.
Summary: Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, held talks in Beijing with Bruno Rodríguez, special envoy of the Party and government of Cuba, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, and Minister of Foreign Affairs. Wang Yi asked Rodríguez to convey President Xi Jinping's cordial greetings to Comrade Raúl and President Díaz-Canel, and stated that China will firmly support Cuba in safeguarding its national sovereignty and legitimate rights and interests, and in opposing sanctions, blockades, and external interference. Wang Yi expressed China's willingness to continuously consolidate and develop friendly relations between China and Cuba together with the Cuban side. Rodríguez conveyed the sincere greetings of General of the Army Raúl and President Díaz-Canel to President Xi Jinping, stating that China has always been a good partner of Cuba in building socialism. The Cuban side is willing to work with the Chinese side to jointly explore a path for the development of bilateral relations that benefits the peoples of both countries.
Summary: Rupa Chanda, Director of the Trade, Investment and Innovation Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, said in an interview that regional economic integration is of vital importance to the Asia-Pacific region, as it brings economies of scale, resilience, and stable expectations. She noted that China has established "openness, innovation, and cooperation" as its three priority areas for its APEC host year, sending a positive signal of safeguarding openness and deepening integration. Chanda highlighted that China proposed upholding the main channel status of the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific at the second Senior Officials' Meeting in Shanghai, and that the APEC Ministers Responsible for Trade Meeting adopted the Suzhou Statement reaffirming commitment to regional economic integration. She also said connectivity is an important foundation for common prosperity, and that the digital economy and artificial intelligence are becoming important drivers of the next phase of Asia-Pacific growth.
Summary: In an interview with People's Daily, Humfrey Arnaldo Russel, director of the ASEAN-China Research Center at the University of Indonesia, said that China, as host of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, is playing a constructive role in promoting regional cooperation. He praised China's proposal of "openness, innovation, and cooperation" as the three priority areas, stating that the Asia-Pacific region needs more mutual trust and cooperation. Russel noted that China has promoted in-depth consultations among APEC members and played an important role in building consensus for cooperation and pooling development synergy. He added that China's continued promotion of high-quality development, scientific and technological innovation, and high-standard opening up will bring new development opportunities to the region, and that deepening Indonesia-China cooperation will help Indonesia's industrial upgrading and digital transformation. Russel expressed hope that the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Shenzhen will produce a more pragmatic and actionable cooperation roadmap.
Summary: The 7th "Forum on Ocean Cooperation and Governance" was held in Sanya, Hainan, attracting over 400 representatives from more than 30 countries for discussions on global ocean governance, maritime safety in the South China Sea, and marine biodiversity. Former Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo said artificial intelligence could deepen understanding of the ocean and urged South China Sea parties to enhance trust and cooperate on fisheries, tourism, and maritime safety. Indonesian Minister Sakti Wahyu Trenggono called for stronger ASEAN-China cooperation on sustainable fisheries and marine conservation, supporting the "Agreement on Marine Biological Diversity." China has applied to host the Agreement's secretariat in Xiamen, and Maldivian Minister Ahmed Shiyam voiced support for this bid. The forum released the "Global Maritime Security Report 2025-2026" and outcomes of practical maritime cooperation projects.
Summary: Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, spoke by phone with U.S. Secretary of State Rubio on November 11, with the two sides exchanging in-depth views on China-U.S. relations and interactions between the two heads of state in a positive and constructive call. Wang Yi stated that President Xi Jinping's visit to the United States in September was smooth and successful, and that the two heads of state agreed to enrich the connotation of the new positioning of China-U.S. relations, providing clearer strategic guidance for exploring the right way for the two countries to get along. He noted that the stable momentum of China-U.S. relations is difficult to achieve and maintain, representing a rational choice based on the respective and common interests of the two major countries. Wang Yi affirmed that China's policy toward the United States maintains stability and continuity, and expressed willingness to strengthen communication and cooperation, properly handle differences and sensitive issues, and mutually support the successful hosting of the 2026 APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting and the G20 Leaders' Summit.
Summary: Peng Qinghua, Vice Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, met in Beijing on November 11 with a delegation of the "Georgian Dream – Democratic Georgia" party led by Samkharadze, a member of the party's Political Committee and Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs. The two sides exchanged views on deepening bilateral and inter-party relations and strengthening exchanges between legislative bodies.
Summary: The Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China, on behalf of the central government, successfully issued 4 billion yuan of green sovereign bonds in Canada on the 9th, with 2 billion yuan in 3-year bonds at 1.4% and 2 billion yuan in 5-year bonds at 1.5%. The issuance was warmly welcomed by the market, with total subscriptions reaching 54.04 billion yuan, 13.5 times the issuance amount. This marks the first time the Ministry of Finance has issued RMB green sovereign bonds in Canada, serving as an important measure in implementing the second China-Canada Economic and Financial Strategic Dialogue. Investors were diverse in type and broad in geographic distribution, with Asia-Pacific investors accounting for 77% and green and sustainable investors accounting for 41%. The bonds will be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Summary: Liu Haixing, Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, met separately in Beijing with Bruno Rodríguez, special envoy of the Cuban Party and government and Cuban Foreign Minister, and with Jaime Raúl Salamanca, Speaker of the Colombian House of Representatives. They exchanged views on implementing the important consensus of the leaders of both sides, strengthening inter-party exchanges and cooperation, and promoting the development of state-to-state relations.
Summary: Chen Wenqing, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, chaired a special meeting on the 11th, emphasizing the need to thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and directives on food safety work and deeply advance the special campaign to lawfully and strictly investigate and punish crimes and violations endangering food safety. He noted that since the campaign was launched, all localities and relevant departments have lawfully and strictly investigated and punished a number of major cases, achieving positive results. Chen Wenqing stressed the need to intensify efforts to screen leads, tackle key cases, and maintain a high-pressure and severe-strike posture throughout all stages of criminal proceedings. He also called for revising laws and regulations related to food safety, improving the two-way linkage mechanism between administrative and criminal enforcement, and promoting joint efforts to safeguard the people's "safety on the tip of the tongue."
Summary: The "Panda Special Train," launched by China Railway Chengdu Group Co., Ltd., has served over 50,000 passengers since 2021, with about 70 percent aged 60 and above, reflecting the growth of China's elderly population projected to exceed 400 million by 2035. The train features age-friendly renovations such as grab bars, non-slip flooring, and medical refrigerators, with designers collecting over 300 pieces of feedback to improve comfort and safety. Service includes a tripartite cooperation model of "railway bureau group + investment entity + operating entity," with tour leaders and medical teams addressing traveler concerns and building trust through transparent pricing and itinerary management. The train has operated over 190 trips generating 370 million yuan in product revenue, though challenges remain in cost control, online registration accessibility for elderly users, and route expansion to coastal regions. Qin Wanru, deputy director of the Tourism Development Department, emphasized that sustained operation depends on passenger flow growth, a "selling in large quantities with small profit margins" model, and developing diverse products to increase repurchase rates.
Summary: The 24th China International Talent Exchange Conference opened in Shanghai on November 11, with State Councilor Shen Yiqin attending and delivering a speech. Shen stressed President Xi Jinping's call to implement a more active, open, and effective talent policy and warmly welcome foreign experts to participate in China's modernization drive. She highlighted China's improving economic development, surging innovation vitality, and long-term social stability, inviting global talent to contribute to Chinese modernization and the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. Shen stated that China will improve support mechanisms for introducing overseas talent and foster a favorable atmosphere for foreign experts' innovation and entrepreneurship. The conference, themed "Gathering Talents from Around the World, Seeking Cooperation and Win-Win Outcomes," saw over 3,100 foreign experts from more than 120 countries and regions attend the opening ceremony.
Summary: The article reports on corn yield improvements in Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia, where dense planting with precise regulation technology boosted yields, with some fields reaching the "ton-grain field" level. Lin Rong, chairman of the Bofeng Agricultural Professional Cooperative, returned to village corn farming in 2019 and adopted the high-yield technology promoted by Li Shaokun's team at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, overcoming initial land preparation challenges. Yin Fengzhen, chief of the Crop Cultivation Section of the Tongliao Municipal Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau, emphasized that dense planting requires coordinated adjustments in water, fertilizer, lodging resistance, and pest control, summarized as the "eight points of precision." Lin Rong expanded his planting to about 6,000 mu plus over 20,000 mu of trusteeship services, applying refined management across scattered plots. Ma Junling, director of the Tongliao Municipal Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau, said the technology, combined with good farmland, seeds, machinery, methods, and disaster prevention, has explored a path for steadily enhancing corn production capacity.
Summary: In October, China's CPI was flat month on month and rose 0.7 percent year on year, with the increase narrowing by 0.2 percentage points from the previous month, while core CPI, excluding food and energy prices, rose 0.8 percent year on year. The PPI for industrial products rose 0.7 percent month on month and 5.7 percent year on year, with the monthly increase narrowing and the annual increase expanding. Gasoline prices rose 22.4 percent year on year, contributing approximately 0.63 percentage points to the CPI's year-on-year rise and driving energy price increases to expand from 7.3 percent to 9.9 percent.
Summary: The article reviews China's progress in comprehensive law-based governance, highlighting the Central Conference on Comprehensive Law-Based Governance and General Secretary Xi Jinping's instructions to open a new situation in building a rule-of-law China. It cites officials such as Li Mingzheng, Vice Minister of Justice, and Teng Jiguo, Deputy Secretary-General of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, on administrative law enforcement, public legal services, and grassroots dispute resolution. The piece details legislative achievements, including the Public Interest Litigation Law and AI governance measures, and emphasizes the integration of law-based governance with Party rule and reform. It also discusses judicial fairness, intellectual property protection, and the balance of leniency and strictness in law enforcement, with quotes from officials like Miao Shengming of the Supreme People's Procuratorate.
Summary: The People's Bank of China's third-quarter monetary policy report shows total financial aggregates maintained reasonable growth in the first three quarters, with aggregate social financing and broad money supply up 7.1 percent and 7.2 percent year on year at end-September. The overall cost of social financing stayed low, with new corporate loan rates slightly below 3.0 percent and new individual housing loan rates around 3.1 percent. Credit structure continued to improve, as loans for science and technology, green loans, inclusive loans, elderly care, and the digital economy industry grew by 12.0, 13.0, 6.5, 16.2, and 15.7 percent year on year respectively, all outpacing overall loan growth.
Summary: The article argues that full and rigorous self-governance of the Party must be unified with encouraging responsible action, forming a clean political ecosystem and a favorable environment for undertaking work. It cites General Secretary Xi Jinping's emphasis on all-round management of cadres, including outside working hours, and strictness as deep care rather than tying people up. Examples include rectifying "micro-corruption" in school meals in Shanxi and Ningxia, and Hainan Free Trade Port's tolerance-for-error measures to back cadres who do real work. The commentary stresses that strict discipline is a "protective talisman" enabling Party members to act boldly within rules. It concludes that on the new journey, strict self-governance and unleashed initiative will promote Chinese modernization.
Summary: The article discusses the policy of seating only after purchase in coffee shops and tea drink stores, featuring three reader submissions. One submission argues that limited business resources should be allocated orderly, prioritizing paying customers, while another cautions that rules should retain a human touch and balance commercial logic with warmth. A third submission suggests the debate reflects citizens' expectations for convenient rest spaces, urging urban public spaces to fill the supply gap through "micro-spaces" and practical facilities. The piece concludes that weaving a denser public service network will make cities warmer.
Summary: During his inspection in Tianjin, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that "scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation must be pursued together," with the article examining how to bridge the "valley of death" between research and industrial application. It highlights practices in Tianjin Binhai New Area, including the Haihe Laboratory of Information Technology Application Innovation coordinating enterprises to solve software usability gaps, and local financial support for companies like underwater robot pioneer Sublue. The piece also cites Tianjin University's "Shengong" brain-computer interface devices serving thousands of patients, benefiting from full-chain protection and ethical review mechanisms. It references the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Developing New Quality Productive Forces" and notes examples such as Kunshan's "scenario office" and Shenzhen's Longgang District AI application zone. The author is an editor of the Comment Department of this newspaper.
Summary: The article is a photo report on China's agricultural development, noting that agricultural products affect both farmers' income and residents' daily lives. It references the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs' issuance of the "15th Five-Year Plan for Improving the Quality of National Agricultural Products," which sets goals for 2030 including a more complete standard system for high-quality agricultural development and improved standardized and green production capacity. The plan promotes a shift in agriculture from being primarily output-oriented to placing equal emphasis on output and quality. The piece concludes with a poem celebrating abundant and beautiful goods filling the fields and happiness moistening the heart.
Summary: The article, excerpted from *Anhui Daily*, highlights how leaving fruit on ornamental persimmon trees in Yingshang County and letting forests rest in Xixinan Village, Huangshan, Anhui, exemplify the integrated symbiosis of ecology and development. It notes that Yingshang's persimmon trees, unharvested for 22 years to feed migratory birds, have grown from 800 to over 5,000, attracting approximately 526,400 tourist visits and driving 315 million yuan in tourism consumption in 2025. The piece argues that such "not worth it" choices yield tenfold vitality, with Xixinan Village now receiving over 2 million annual visits and villagers earning from the "tourism bowl." It frames this as a new path for green development and a culture of ecological self-awareness, urging proper handling of ecological protection, green development, and livelihood improvement. The article concludes by promoting the "Two Mountains" concept and the path of green, low-carbon, circular, and sustainable development for harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature.
Summary: The article is a People's Commentary emphasizing the need for sustained efforts in grain production despite consecutive bumper harvests, as autumn grain harvest progresses in the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan. It argues that food security requires proactive preparation—such as high-standard farmland renovation and water conservancy—rather than crisis-driven responses, citing a Hubei farmer's fields that avoided losses due to improved drainage. The commentary stresses that agricultural modernization, including superior seeds, socialized services, and industrial chain integration, is key to both stabilizing output and driving high-quality development. It also highlights protecting farmers' incomes through purchase funds, subsidies, and premium pricing to maintain their enthusiasm for grain growing. The piece concludes by citing General Secretary Xi Jinping's emphasis on ensuring stable supply of grain and other important agricultural products as the top priority in agricultural production.
Summary: The article emphasizes that persisting in using the Party's innovative theories to unite minds and build the soul is a strategic deployment of the Decision adopted at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, reflecting the theoretical self-awareness of Chinese Communists. It stresses the need to deeply study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to strengthen Party spirit, ideological development, unity, and the accomplishment of the Party's mission on the new journey. The piece outlines basic requirements, including comprehensively mastering the thought's main content, grasping its standpoints and methods, and comprehending its realm and feelings. It also details implementation tasks such as reading original works, enriching theoretical learning methods, carrying forward the Marxist style of study, and deepening systematic research and interpretation. The article underscores that using the Party's innovative theories to unite hearts and forge souls is essential for providing ideological guarantees and spiritual strength for building a modern socialist country and advancing national rejuvenation.
Summary: The article reports on Yunnan's efforts to foster a sense of community for the Chinese nation, following General Secretary Xi Jinping's March 2025 inspection tour emphasizing ethnic unity and border stability. It highlights cultural preservation, such as the Lijiang Ancient City Museum's educational programs and the protection of the Ethnic Unity Oath Monument, alongside inter-embedded community building and tourism-driven integration. Economic initiatives include tourism feeding back into agriculture at Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, with 80 percent ethnic minority staff, and the promotion of highland specialty products. Yunnan has implemented six border prosperity projects, building all 374 border administrative villages into happiness villages by the end of 2025. The piece concludes by portraying ethnic groups in Yunnan as united in struggle to build the Chinese Dream.
Summary: Danzhai County, a former national poverty alleviation key county in Guizhou Province, has pursued comprehensive rural revitalization since being lifted out of poverty in 2019, leveraging its tea industry, ethnic culture, and natural ecology. The county developed a market-oriented, full-chain tea industry, with output value exceeding 1.2 billion yuan in 2025, and built a "one primary, two supplementary" characteristic industrial system. Cultural tourism integration, exemplified by the "Silversmith Village" and "Dream Butterfly Garden," has made ethnic culture and ecology economically productive, with 2.3335 million domestic tourists received from January to August this year. The Cloud Town scenic area, initially supported by a caring enterprise and the National Audit Office, has transitioned to local operations, emphasizing sustainable management. The National Audit Office has dispatched five rounds of cadres since 2016, and the county now focuses on combining external support with internal capacity building, shifting from "passively receiving aid" to "actively developing."
Summary: The article reports on China's three-year special campaign to strengthen financial and accounting supervision, citing General Secretary Xi Jinping's instructions that Party committees must assume political responsibility and strictly enforce financial and economic discipline. It details major cases, including fraudulent agricultural subsidy funds in Anxiang County, Hunan, and penalties against PricewaterhouseCoopers Zhongtian for audit failures in the Evergrande project. The piece highlights the establishment of a "five-in-one" supervision system and coordination with disciplinary inspection organs, with over 12,000 institutional documents formulated or revised. A Ministry of Finance official is quoted as saying the goal is to keep the "sharp sword" of supervision hanging high to safeguard the Party Central Committee's major decisions.
Summary: The "International Forum on Mutual Learning Among Civilizations 2026" was held in Macao from November 9 to 10, drawing representatives from over 20 countries and regions. Sam Hou Fai, Chief Executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region, said Macao serves as a "precise connector" between China and Portuguese-speaking countries and is actively building itself into a contributor to contemporary civilizational dialogue. Speakers including Zheng Yongnian, Dean of the School of Public Policy at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), and Zhu Feng, Professor at Nanjing University, discussed Macao's Sino-Western fusion and the need for multilateral governance of artificial intelligence to serve mutual learning among civilizations. The forum released the *"Window on Chinese Culture" Special Edition Collection* and signed a publication cooperation agreement with Brazil's São Paulo State University Publishing Foundation, coinciding with the "China-Brazil Cultural Year." Leong Wai Kun, Director of the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao SAR Government, expressed willingness to use Macao as a bond and culture as a bridge to promote the harmonious coexistence of the world's diverse civilizations.
Summary: This year's "Double 11" shopping festival reflects new consumption trends, with the structure shifting from goods-dominated to giving equal weight to goods and services, alongside rising demand for green, smart, and healthy products. A Ministry of Commerce official noted that retail sales of services grew 5.0 percent year on year in the first three quarters, outpacing goods sales, and services consumption is expected to keep growing faster. The deep integration of online and offline channels has created new retail scenarios, with platforms like Tmall and JD.com using digital technology and omnichannel models to drive incremental consumption. Demand for "Token" computing power, health monitoring devices, and wellness appliances surged during the period, with JD.com reporting over 7 times month-on-month growth in Token searches. These changes highlight the positive interaction between retail innovation and consumer upgrading, supporting high-quality development of China's consumer market.
Summary: The 2026 China International Intelligent Communication Forum, co-hosted by China Media Group and the People's Government of Jiangsu Province, was held in Wuxi, Jiangsu, on November 9. The forum launched the "Wuxi Initiative," released the "2026 Development Report on the International Intelligent Communication Capacity of Chinese Cities," and introduced several cultural programs and thematic forums. Jiangsu was noted to leverage the platform to promote exchanging and learning from one another among civilizations, using content, technology, and emotion to tell stories of joint development and win-win cooperation.
Summary: The article promotes Huinong e-Loan, an online loan product from the Agricultural Bank of China designed for farmers. It highlights the convenience of applying, withdrawing, and repaying loans entirely through a mobile phone, enabling farmers to complete procedures without leaving home. The piece includes the product name, website, and customer service hotline.
Summary: The article highlights how young entrepreneurs in Shanghai and Shanwei are using traditional Chinese culture to drive original design in fashion and jewelry. Qian Yawen, founder of a children's outdoor apparel brand in Shanghai, integrates native natural elements into products and has benefited from local government support, including funding and incubation space. In Shanwei, the gold and silver jewelry industry is shifting toward original design, with practitioners like Cai Songyan and Cai Duzheng incorporating traditional motifs and using short videos to reach overseas merchants. Local officials, such as Shi Xiaoguo of the Haifeng County Science, Industry and Information Technology Bureau, pledge continued support for craft innovation and brand building. The piece underscores how Shanghai and Shanwei are fostering youth entrepreneurship and cultural heritage in industry.
Summary: The article highlights the rising popularity of youth night schools as a reflection of a broader societal shift toward lifelong learning, emphasizing that learning opportunities should exist at every stage of life. It cites examples such as Zhejiang's rural book houses and the National Smart Education Public Service Platform to illustrate the expansion of learning carriers and forms. The piece acknowledges persistent gaps in learning resources between urban and rural areas and among different groups, calling for improved grassroots networks to ensure equitable access. It concludes that making lifelong learning a societal norm will enhance civilized quality and innovative vitality, supporting national rejuvenation.
Summary: The article highlights the "Three People in the Distant Mountains" literary and art volunteer service team in Sanming City, Fujian Province, which sends streamlined and flexible cultural services to rural villages, performing "at any time" and "as soon as they enter the village." It emphasizes the need to customize services to meet local needs, using courtyards and ancient house corridors as stages to make cultural offerings a regular presence. The piece notes that this is a "two-way journey," where literary and art workers gather local stories and customs for creative material, forming a cycle of service and inspiration. It stresses that long-term sustainability depends on nurturing local literary and art talent and integrating resources to explore replicable models for grassroots public cultural service equalization. The article concludes that "only by traveling light can one reach the distant mountains," underscoring the value of such heartfelt, flexible cultural outreach.
Summary: Tianjin has launched a "direct express lane" platform for courier workers' appeals, jointly established by the Tianjin Municipal Postal Administration and the Tianjin Federation of Trade Unions, covering six categories of appeals such as labor remuneration arrears and work-related injury determinations. The platform implements a fully closed-loop handling mechanism with standardized management across acceptance, dispatch, time-limited handling, and return visits.
Summary: Hongyan School in Nanchang County, Jiangxi, is characterized by aviation science and innovation education, having developed a school-based curriculum system of "aviation + science and innovation" that includes courses such as model aircraft, drone operation, and maker programming. Through observation, interaction, and hands-on experiences, the school integrates aviation science and innovation knowledge into the children's campus life.
Summary: Cross-border e-commerce is helping Chinese quality goods reach global markets, with steel furniture from Luoyang's Yibin District shipped to the United States, Thailand, and Malaysia via the Dongfanghong (Luoyang) International Land Port, according to Cong Guangying, head of a local import-export trading company. An electronics company in Shenzhen showcased new AI-enabled headphones sold through global e-commerce platforms and overseas warehouses, allowing Shenzhen-made products to reach consumers directly. The article credits policy support, including Luoyang Customs' streamlined clearance for the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone and Longgang District's dedicated tax office with eight measures for compliant international expansion. It concludes that cross-border e-commerce connects domestic and international markets, enabling more Chinese smart-manufactured goods to integrate globally.
Summary: The Tiebukenwusan Border Police Station in Hoboksar Mongol Autonomous County, Xinjiang, deployed its "herd-following policing" mechanism to escort herder Qalhan Yinitimak's 800 head of livestock through the autumn-to-winter seasonal migration after he called for help due to a labor shortage. Police and auxiliary police formed a herd-protection team, leading the route and securing the livestock throughout the journey, which Qalhan praised as reassuring and worry-free. Political instructor Ma Aipeng explained that the measure aligns with pastoral production characteristics, allowing officers to resolve herders' problems on the spot along the migration route. He added that the station has escorted more than 10,000 head of livestock through migration since the beginning of this year.
Summary: The article describes how Beiguan Community in Yinchuan City, Ningxia, addresses limited public venue space through "staggered peak sharing," allocating daytime slots to elderly dance teams while providing rest areas and policy materials for delivery riders. The community training center offers amenities like battery-swap stations and ping-pong tables, with free access to over ten basic services including drinking water and a book reading room. Its operating model adopts a "government + market" dual-drive approach, combining inclusive public-welfare courses with market-oriented specialized training to meet diverse needs.
Summary: The article describes the "Mill Bank" in Beishi Village, Dong'e Town, Pingyin County, Jinan, Shandong, a mill that also serves as an informal emergency fund for villagers, requiring only a signature for withdrawals. It was established in 2012 after village Party branch secretary Shi Xingshun paid out of his own pocket to help a villager in a traffic accident who lacked cash for a hospital deposit. Shi entrusted 10,000 yuan to mill operator Cao Guangfen to manage the fund, and over 14 years it has handled over 3,000 transactions totaling over 200,000 yuan with zero defaults. Cao attributes the villagers' timely repayments to the village's simple, honest, and trustworthy folk culture.
Summary: The article reports on the arrival of winter migratory birds in Hubei Province's Wuhan metropolitan area, with over 50,000 birds already at Chen Lake International Important Wetland. It attributes the thriving bird populations to ongoing restoration measures, including returning farmland and aquaculture to wetland, banning river sand extraction, and preserving lotus root cultivation. The nine cities of the Wuhan metropolitan area have each taken concrete actions, such as leaving paddy unharvested at Wang Lake in Huangshi, establishing a "park + village committee + farmers" consultation model at Anshan in Wuhan, and opening a "water runway" at Fanwan Lake in Qianjiang. Additional efforts include setting up artificial bird nests at Liangzi Lake and Shahu, and building bird-watching pavilions with free telescopes at Longgan Lake in Huanggang. The Chen Lake education base is also open free of charge to the public for immersive learning about wetlands and birds.
Summary: The "Youjian Apartment" in Dadukou District, Chongqing, was renovated from a former Chongqing Iron and Steel Plant dormitory into a complex combining residence, office, and business incubation, with over 600 residents, more than 70 percent from new employment groups. The Dadukou District Party Committee's Social Work Department led the renovation to address the pressing needs and difficulties of these groups. Su Jiake, head of the apartment, said they must not only give new employment groups a place to settle but also ensure they live well. The complex regularly holds themed salons and special recruitment fairs, offering career planning and employment consultation. It also operates a points-based mutual-aid platform with surrounding merchants, allowing residents to exchange services for points redeemable for goods.
Summary: The article argues for more scientifically and effectively confining power within the cage of institutions, a task listed by the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party. It cites General Secretary Xi Jinping's emphasis that public power must be restrained and supervised, and that institutions are more fundamental, comprehensive, stable, and enduring than ideals or education. The piece calls for establishing a more complete institutional system, a more authoritative enforcement mechanism, and a more scientific responsibility mechanism, while deepening openness so power operates in the sunlight. It stresses that institutional constraints are rigid, requiring strict enforcement, accountability, and the elimination of hidden rules. The author is a professor at the School of CPC History and Party Building, Renmin University of China.
Summary: This article argues that "high-quality life" is a signature concept in Xi Jinping's expositions on improving people's livelihoods, enriching Marxist livelihood theory and guiding livelihood construction in the new era. It defines a high-quality life as a good life rooted in the people's needs, covering all spheres of life, and unifying the sense of gain, happiness, and security. The piece stresses scientifically understanding the relationship between high-quality development and a high-quality life, using each to lead and guarantee the other, and enhancing life quality with common prosperity as the goal. It further frames a high-quality life as deepening Marxist thought on the comprehensive development of the individual within the organic unity of individual development and social progress. The author is a researcher at the Capital Governance Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Summary: The article argues that China's 2013 concept of a community with a shared future for mankind drives ontological and epistemological innovation in international relations theory. It contrasts this concept with traditional theories based on individual subjectivity and binary opposition, emphasizing instead wholeness, interconnectedness, inclusiveness, and harmony rooted in Chinese culture. The piece asserts that this ontology requires holistic, systematic, and dialectical thinking that coordinates domestic and international situations as well as history, present, and future. The excerpt is from the *Chinese Social Sciences Today*, September 16, 2026, by Sun Jisheng, titled "Continuously Enhancing the Influence of the Concept of a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind."
Summary: The article compiles statements from Russian, Kazakh, Pakistani, and Chinese officials and executives on Belt and Road cooperation, emphasizing media's role in fostering people-to-people bonds and mutual understanding. Pavel Negoytsa of Rossiyskaya Gazeta highlights the initiative's contrast with bloc-based governance and supports its parallel development with the Greater Eurasian Partnership. Jiang Haiqing of China Media Group frames high-quality Belt and Road cooperation as a "new Long March" and calls for media to promote civilizational dialogue and innovative cooperation. Dana Rysmukhamedova of Kazakhstan's International News Agency stresses media cooperation as a bond for closer ties, citing signed memorandums with Chinese outlets. Saadia Sharif of Pakistan's Jang Media Group details the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor's tangible outcomes, including the Suki Kinari Hydropower Station, and the building of its "2.0 upgraded version" with "five corridors."
Summary: The article compiles statements from various officials and executives at the Belt and Road Media Cooperation Forum. Shi Dai, Chairman of China Tourism Group, discussed leveraging tourism to promote mutual learning among civilizations and people-to-people bonds, including launching cultural-themed cruises and Belt and Road tourism routes. Zhao Fei, General Manager of China Changan Automobile, highlighted the company's overseas sales growth and its shift from "products going global" to "ecosystem going global." Xu Siwei, Chairman of China Guoxin Holdings, emphasized guiding capital toward long-term infrastructure and production capacity cooperation projects in Belt and Road countries. Li Xiangyang, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, argued that the Belt and Road Initiative contributes to a fair and just global governance system by prioritizing development and dynamic comparative advantages over the existing rules-oriented system.
Summary: The article reports on Sichuan's decade-long exploration of "character education" as a way to make ideological and political courses more effective by turning abstract values into concrete behavioral habits for students. It describes how the program, launched in 2014 and extended to preschool in 2021, now covers 21 cities and prefectures and more than 3,700 schools, breaking down core socialist values into 24 character traits. Examples include bamboo weaving classes at Xuefu Primary School in Chongzhou, a "character passbook" at Shishang School in Chengdu, and study tour routes in Zigong using red resources. Schools have also innovated evaluation methods, such as "character praise" at Chengdu Shengfei School, to foster internal moral self-discipline rather than relying on external rewards. A 2026 survey by the Sichuan New Century Character Education Research Institute found that 98.2% of teachers and over 92% of parents viewed the practice positively.
Summary: Yihai Kerry Arawana Holdings Co., Ltd. has opened its transparent factories to the public since 2008, hosting interactive tours this year that let consumers observe fully automated cooking oil, rice, and flour production lines and receive food safety education. Pan Kun, the company's food safety director, said the activities showcase the enterprise's food safety control and urge it to consolidate its defense line, with over 80 transparent factories having received more than 2 million visitors. The company has assembled a quality management team of over 2,500 people to build a whole-chain control system from field to table, addressing industry pain points like dispersed raw materials and long processing chains. Jiang Yuanrong, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and director of the Public Affairs Department, stated that "born for the food safety and health of the nation" is the enterprise's original aspiration, and it will align with national strategies and upgrade toward nutrition and health.
Summary: Xinjiang's wine industry is shifting from base wine export to independent brand development, with 2025 output reaching 84,000 tons and sales revenue of 708 million yuan, a 12% year-on-year increase. The autonomous region has issued the "Seven Policy Measures Supporting the Development of the Wine Industry" and released the "Xinjiang Wine" major producing region brand with the slogan "Fine Wine Intoxicates Xinjiang," centered on the "3O" concept of Original, Oriental, and Organic. Market development activities since 2025 have included contract signings exceeding 10 million yuan at the National Sugar and Wine Commodities Fair, awards at the China International Alcoholic Beverages Expo, showcases at the Hong Kong International Wine & Spirits Fair, and 16 signed projects at the Xinjiang Silk Road Wine Festival. Seven wineries from the northern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains entered the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area supply chain, with procurement cooperation covering the Yangtze River Delta, East China, and South China markets. The Forestry and Grassland Bureau will continue implementing the policy measures and the 2026–2030 industry chain construction plan to promote branding and industrialization.
Summary: The article, marking the twentieth United Nations Diabetes Day, explains that diabetes is a systemic glucose metabolism disorder and that insulin resistance is a key precursor to type 2 diabetes, often signaled by abdominal obesity, pre-meal hypoglycemia, and skin changes. Pan Qi, standing committee member and secretary-general of the Diabetes Branch of the Chinese Medical Association and chief physician of the Endocrinology Department of Beijing Hospital, notes that insulin resistance has a reversible window period, with reversal hinging on lifestyle intervention such as diet, strength training, and weight loss. Man Fuli, attending physician in the Endocrinology Department of Beijing Hospital, adds that standardized intervention for 3 to 6 months can markedly improve insulin, C-peptide, and blood glucose indicators. Zuo Xiaoxia, chief physician of the Nutrition Department of the Eighth Medical Center of the PLA General Hospital, warns against blindly "cutting carbs," emphasizing that carbohydrates should account for about 50% of total daily energy intake. Experts also caution that continuous glucose monitors are not needed by everyone and that healthy individuals without high-risk factors should not proactively wear them.
Summary: The article highlights the "Xiejing'an · Transfar Agri-Innovation Village" in Hangzhou as a model of private enterprise involvement in rural revitalization, featuring smart greenhouses, tomato-picking robots, and digital seedling factories. Chen Ke, general manager of Zhejiang Transfar Rural Development Co., Ltd., emphasized building a stronger foundation for agricultural technology so farmland can "grow" new quality productive forces. The project has hosted over 30 research institutes and enterprises, launched a Rural Dream Maker Plan with a 10 million yuan fund, and attracted more than 70 agricultural entrepreneurs. Xu Guanjü, chairman of the Transfar Group, stated the enterprise will take responsibility in fulfilling social commitments and contribute to advancing the demonstration zone for common prosperity.
Summary: The Sichuan Provincial Plateau Disease Prevention and Treatment Base was recently completed and put into operation in Mao County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, marking China's first plateau disease prevention and treatment base at mid-altitude. Under the guidance of West China Hospital of Sichuan University, the base will conduct mid-altitude rehabilitation and related medical research, forming with the hospital's platforms in Chengdu and Lhasa a complete scientific research system spanning "low altitude—mid-altitude—high altitude." As a key project of Sichuan Province's 2026 provincial-level livelihood initiatives, the base moves the threshold of plateau disease prevention and treatment forward and will provide medical services to nearly 900,000 people in Aba Prefecture. It will radiate outward to the western Sichuan Plateau and the entire western region, systematically enhancing plateau disease prevention and treatment capacity and helping to resolve the pressing problems and needs of plateau residents.
Summary: The article highlights Henan Vocational College of Water Conservancy and Environment's role in vocational education under the national "Double High Plan," emphasizing Party building leadership and a "grand ideological and political education" pattern. The college integrates ecological education and craftsman spirit into training, bringing cases like the Yellow River basin strategy and South-to-North Water Diversion into classrooms. It promotes international cooperation, including exporting vocational standards to Pakistan, co-building "Jialu College" with Kazakhstan, and creating the "Dahe Workshop" in Vietnam, while linking with universities in the UK, Germany, and Malaysia. The college deepens school-enterprise collaboration through industrial colleges and modern apprenticeship models, with graduates serving in water conservancy and ecological frontline roles. It aims to strengthen its "ideological and political education + water conservancy + ecology" brand to support Yellow River basin development and Henan's modernization.
Summary: The article reports on the "Emergency Mission · 2026" major forest fire extinguishing exercise held in Fengjie County, Chongqing, which showcased the city's digital emergency response construction. The Chongqing Municipal Emergency Management Bureau has built a digital emergency response "1356N" framework under Digital Chongqing, promoting a shift from experience-based judgment to digital-intelligent governance. The exercise demonstrated measures prioritizing prevention, including deploying over 24,000 sensing devices for full-domain perception and activating a "135" early-stage fire handling mechanism. It also highlighted building resilient communications through airborne detachments and opening force projection channels using digital sand tables and new-quality rescue equipment. The exercise took as its entry point the difficulty of cracking problems in firefighting in high-mountain forest areas of the southwest.
Summary: President Xi Jinping promulgated the revised Water Law of the People's Republic of China, which was adopted at the 25th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress on November 6, 2026, and will come into force on March 22, 2027. The Law stipulates that water resources are owned by the state, implements a licensing system for water withdrawal and a system of paid use, and upholds principles including giving priority to water conservation and pursuing systematic governance. It establishes a management system combining river basin management with administrative region management, implements the river and lake chief system, and sets out provisions on water resources planning, protection, allocation, and economical use. The Law also details legal liability for violations, including fines for unauthorized water withdrawal, illegal encroachment on rivers and lakes, and unlicensed sand extraction.
Summary: China's automobile exports totaled 9.271 million vehicles in the first ten months of 2024, up 65.1% year-on-year, with October monthly exports reaching 1.066 million vehicles, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. New energy vehicle exports in October hit 606,000 units, up 1.4 times year-on-year, while traditional fuel vehicle exports rose 12.3%. The share of new energy vehicles in total exports has exceeded 50% for five consecutive months. From January to October, new energy vehicle exports reached 4.612 million units, up 1.3 times year-on-year, and traditional fuel vehicle exports totaled 4.659 million units, up 29.4%. Domestic new energy vehicle production and sales reached 14.509 million and 14.411 million units respectively, with sales accounting for 54.8% of total new vehicle sales.
Summary: The article highlights State Grid Ningbo Power Supply Company's "Six Hearts, Six Types" model-led system, which promotes learning from "Model of the Times" Qian Haijun and other exemplary employees. Qian Haijun launched the "Thousand Households, Ten Thousand Lights" public welfare project in 2015, providing free renovation of indoor lighting circuits for people in difficulty, and the project has since reached 7 provinces and benefited more than 70,000 people. Zhang Jiming, squad leader at the Yinzhou District dispatch and control center, led development of a distributed feeder automation system that compressed power restoration time to 0.1 seconds, reducing potential losses for enterprises by more than 1 billion yuan each year. The company also completed the 220 kV Hongtang Substation relocation and construction project and piloted a "power supply + energy efficiency + carbon efficiency" collaborative service model in 12 parks, benefiting 718 enterprises. Wang Xiang, member of the Party committee and chairman of the trade union, said the system drives power workers to take root in their posts, with overall labor productivity rising 21.8% in three years.
Summary: The Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs jointly issued a notice adjusting the special enrollment plan for key institutions of higher education targeting rural and impoverished areas, in place since 2012, into a special enrollment plan serving rural revitalization, with a three-year transition period taking effect from the 2030 college entrance examination. The implementation areas are divided into national-level and local-level categories, with national-level areas including key assistance counties and regions in Tibet and Xinjiang, where central and local public undergraduate institutions will enroll, while local-level areas are determined by provinces based on economic development and basic education levels, with local public institutions mainly enrolling and central institutions supporting underdeveloped regions.
Summary: President Xi Jinping promulgated the revised Water Law of the People's Republic of China, which was adopted at the 25th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress on November 6, 2026, and will come into force on March 22, 2027. The Law stipulates that water resources are owned by the state, implements a licensing system for water withdrawal and a system of paid use, and upholds principles including giving priority to water conservation and pursuing systematic governance. It establishes a management system combining river basin management with administrative region management, implements the river and lake chief system, and sets out provisions on water resources planning, protection, allocation, and economical use. The Law also details legal liability for violations, including fines for unauthorized water withdrawal, illegal encroachment on rivers and lakes, and unlicensed sand extraction.
Summary: CCB Yunnan Branch is integrating the "three capabilities"—enhancing the capacity to serve national development, prevent financial risks, and participate in international competition—into its services to support Yunnan's "three strategic positioning" as a demonstration zone for ethnic unity and progress, a pacesetter in ecological civilization construction, and a radiation center facing South and Southeast Asia. The branch has provided 1.67 trillion yuan in comprehensive financing since the start of the 14th Five-Year Plan, including support for the China-Laos Railway, cross-border finance with international settlement volume exceeding US$3 billion, and green credit for projects like the Huaneng Nagu Photovoltaic Power Station. It is advancing the "five major articles" of finance, with technology finance using patent collateral loans, inclusive finance exceeding 60 billion yuan in loans, and pension finance issuing over 3.42 million social security cards. The branch has disbursed 37.9 billion yuan in agriculture-related loans and over 120 billion yuan in green credit, while building a RMB clearing network covering neighboring countries for Belt and Road Initiative projects. Standing at the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, CCB Yunnan Branch will continue strengthening the "three capabilities" and doing well the "five major articles" of finance to support Yunnan's development.
Summary: German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited Volkswagen Group's R&D facility in Hefei during his state visit to China, test-driving a smart EV developed by Volkswagen in China. The article traces Volkswagen's 40-year history in China, from the 1984 establishment of SAIC Volkswagen and 1991 founding of FAW-Volkswagen, through its evolution from technology introduction to joint innovation. It highlights recent collaborations, including a 2022 joint venture with Horizon Robotics, a 2023 investment in XPeng Motors, and Volkswagen obtaining an L3-level autonomous driving road testing license in Hefei in 2026. The piece notes that amid rising unilateralism and trade protectionism, Volkswagen's continued deepening of investment demonstrates Sino-German auto cooperation as a long-term win-win, with the Jetta brand's electrification cited as an example. It concludes that multinational automakers have repositioned China from a "sales destination" to an "R&D source" and "global export hub," with Volkswagen planning to introduce its China-developed "VEGA" technology matrix to South America.
Summary: The article reports on how the Lingao Sub-branch of Hainan Rural Commercial Bank, nicknamed the "boat-bow bank," delivers financial services to fishermen in Lingao County, Hainan Province, by building credit records and offering tailored loans. It describes how the bank used "soft information" from the local Baocai Fishery Cooperative Association to create a "whitelist" of creditworthy fishermen, enabling whole-village credit extension and QR-code loan applications. The piece highlights a "shipyard phased guarantee + new boat mortgage" arrangement to help fishermen replace old boats with new steel-hulled vessels, and an online "fishing e-loan" that disburses funds in as little as seven hours. Wang Jiawu, Party Committee Secretary and President of the Lingao Sub-branch, is quoted saying that wherever fishermen are, financial services follow, and that ensuring honest fishermen can get loans is how they practice "supporting agriculture and supporting small businesses." The reporter's notes emphasize that client managers must "board the boat" to assess real conditions, and that technology cannot replace face-to-face trust in crossing the "last nautical mile."
Summary: The article traces the historical evolution of China's work-relief policy from ancient times through the Qing dynasty, highlighting its countercyclical economic function and three key characteristics: proactive disaster prevention, addressing both immediate and root causes, and skill-building for self-reliance. It notes that work-relief matured institutionally during the mid-Qing dynasty, though its effectiveness was constrained by state will, fiscal capacity, and bureaucratic efficiency. The author argues that the modern significance of work-relief lies in "investing in people" and proposes building a "human resources reserve pool" as a creative transformation of this historical policy. This reserve pool, integrating social and market forces, would serve as a training ground for unemployed labor and supply competitive workers for high-quality economic development. The article concludes that such a pool is a key policy option for the employment-first strategy of the new era.
Summary: Three policewomen from the Pumajiangtang Border Police Station in Tibet—Li Hongyan, Wu Hui, and Li Tianjiao—have painted "summer" scenes on the earthen walls of Sakong Village at 5,373 meters altitude, where oxygen is less than 40 percent of sea level and snow seals the mountains for ten months, to show children who have never seen midsummer its beauty. They also run an "oxygenated tutoring class" during winter vacations, teaching Chinese, mathematics, safety, and rule-of-law knowledge, while studying Tibetan themselves to bridge language barriers with local herders and children. The article recounts warm interactions, such as a child giving Li Tianjiao a Tibetan name, a girl named Drolkar taking repeated photos with Wu Hui, and 13-year-old Jumi Chilie being comforted about leaving for junior high school in Jiangsu. The policewomen aim to plant seeds of patriotism, courage, resilience, and beauty in the children, with one child vowing to become a border defense police officer. The piece highlights their voluntary service in a remote, harsh frontier as a "touching romance of the snowy frontier."
Summary: The article discusses three typical cases published by the Cybersecurity Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security during the "Huwang—2026" special operation, exposing failures to fulfill network and data security protection obligations. It warns that some units neglect protection for routine business, test servers, and visitor registration, mistakenly believing risks exist only in primary systems, and that such laxity stems from a mindset of undue optimism or reliance on luck. The piece emphasizes that under the Cybersecurity Law, network operators bear statutory responsibility regardless of business importance, and that there are no "marginal zones" in security protection. It notes that public security organs have conducted over 9,700 network and data security hazard investigations this year, moving governance forward toward supervising primary responsibility and source governance. The article concludes that cyberspace governance requires both regulatory oversight and operators abandoning the mindset of "valuing business over security" to eliminate security dead corners.
Summary: A 90-year-old Chongqing man, Grandpa Su, sued his six children after they opposed his wish to move to a nursing home, demanding they each pay 700 yuan monthly in support payments and visit him regularly. The children argued that home care was sufficient and cited financial constraints, though they acknowledged their legal obligation to support him. The court ruled that elderly people have the right to independently choose their eldercare mode, citing the Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly, and that support obligations include spiritual comfort alongside economic support. The judgment ordered each child to pay 500 yuan per month for the nursing home fee, share medical expenses equally, and visit him monthly. The judge clarified that the elderly person's wishes take priority in eldercare decisions and that children cannot forcibly decide on their behalf.
Summary: Jinggangshan City in Ji'an, Jiangxi, was named a "2021–2025 Model County for Peaceful China Construction," an honor attributed to its integration of the red gene into peaceful construction and its upholding of the Fengqiao model of the new era. The city has explored a "Five Joints for Co-Governance" mechanism and launched "home visits to hear complaints" outreach activities, with police officers resolving issues such as helping an elderly resident obtain a refund for accidental online payments. A "red governance work method" has created mediation brands like "Jing Police Have Mediation" and "Red Jinggangshan," exemplified by a case where mediators at the Jinggangshan Comprehensive Governance Center resolved a rent dispute for Ms. Yu. The city has built a three-tier linked mediation system of municipal, township, and village comprehensive governance centers to handle disputes by classification and level. During holidays, legal publicity is combined with red tourism at sites like the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Museum to foster a strong atmosphere for peaceful construction.
Summary: At the 2026 International Bay Area Economic Forum in Guangzhou, over 20 power enterprises including China Southern Power Grid released a proposal to deepen power cooperation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. China Southern Power Grid Guangdong Power Grid Company is building a world-class "power bay area" across six dimensions, including supply, resilience, green development, technology, smart integration, and open sharing. Key projects include the Guangdong Yangjiang Sanshan Island offshore wind power flexible DC transmission project, which will deliver clean electricity to the Greater Bay Area. The company is also advancing digital grid capabilities, vehicle-to-grid charging, and "six-network" coordination pilots in Guangzhou and Hengqin. Guangdong Power Grid is deepening energy connectivity with Hong Kong and Macao, supporting initiatives such as "Hong Kong vehicles traveling north" and cross-border green certificate trading.
Summary: The article discusses the evolution of podcasts in China from niche, audio-only content to mainstream, video-enhanced formats, emphasizing their companionship value and appeal to educated urban youth seeking in-depth content. It highlights how video podcasts, often featuring celebrities, expand audiences but risk compressing complex experiences into viral soundbites, while responsible expression requires accounting for context and constraints. The piece advocates for more ordinary people becoming cultural narrators, noting that the National Radio and Television Administration now includes podcasts in its recommendation scope. It argues that depth comes from long-term life accumulation and that platforms should help niche topics reach relevant listeners, fostering trust and sustained exchange. The author, identified as Director of the Research Department of the Online Video Research Center at Communication University of China, concludes that podcasts' future depends on new narrators, careful public impact, and leaving lasting works.
Summary: The article reflects on the 12th China Quyi Festival as a model for integrating traditional folk performing arts into contemporary life, featuring performances in theaters, campuses, ancient towns, and squares, and highlighting intergenerational inheritance through master-disciple collaborations and children's pieces. It argues that festivals provide short-term displays but face challenges in sustaining daily integration, such as dialect retreat, hollow cross-genre innovation, and the risk of venues going cold after events. The piece emphasizes cultivating endogenous momentum through institutional support for venues and talent while preserving the essence of storytelling, citing Guang'an's post-festival plans for monthly performances and a four-tier network. It calls on administrative forces to shift from "igniter" to "safety net" to "guardian," leaving content creation to professional teams, as exemplified by the "Majie Storytelling Venue" livestream. The author concludes that quyi's vitality lies in remaining rooted in folk life, upholding people-centered creation, and balancing principles with innovation.
Summary: The article reviews the documentary *Long March: A Rendezvous of Youth*, which narrates the Red Army's eight rendezvous points and uses "rendezvous" as an allegory for dialogue between history and reality, past and present youth. Seven students from Peking University, Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, Minzu University of China, and other institutions visited the sites as seekers and narrators, with the film focusing on individual soldiers and micro-level details to build a holistic understanding of the Long March. It highlights stories such as Zeng Yongya, a founding major general who remembered 34 fellow villagers who enlisted with him, and teachers and students from Anhui Normal University completing pencil portraits of unnamed Red Army martyrs. The documentary also recounts a battle at Kuniushan where over 800 soldiers leapt off a cliff after running out of ammunition and food, and reveals artifacts like Liu Jinshan's handwritten "ideological autobiography" and Red Army letters. The review concludes by noting the Huajiang Canyon Bridge, the world's highest and longest-span mountain bridge, appears in the same frame as the historic Huajiang Chain Bridge, symbolically linking past and present.
Summary: The author, producer of both *Ask the Heart* and *The Little Town's Good Remedy*, reflects on how the two medical dramas share the same creative intention while taking different paths—one rooted in professional authenticity, the other in grassroots life. The producer describes how the team embedded in top-tier hospitals for *Ask the Heart* to capture real clinical boundaries, including a case where a patient died despite successful surgery due to concealed medical history, underscoring that doctors and patients share disease as their common enemy. Afterward, the team turned to a grassroots hospital in a small northeastern town for *The Little Town's Good Remedy*, telling how a young doctor and townspeople heal one another through mutual care, addressing the talent gap and resource insufficiency in grassroots healthcare. Both dramas practice "warm realism," neither beautifying nor peddling suffering, but leaving an outlet of hope by showing kindness and understanding within real predicaments. The author concludes that good realistic creation means writing ordinary people's stories with warmth, whether depicting life-and-death races or steady everyday warmth.
Summary: Chi Jinsheng, a renowned Peking opera artist, educator, and director known as the "living dictionary of Peking opera," taught for over 80 years before passing away on October 31, 2026, at age 104. Born into an opera family in 1922, he studied under Cao Lianxiao and trained with Ma Lianliang's eldest son, becoming a witness to the founding of the Ma school art. He joined the Beijing Peking Opera Troupe in 1956, taught on Ma Lianliang's behalf, and later shifted to directing in the 1960s, notably directing *Shajiabang* and *Three Strikes on Tao Sanchun*. He served as chief director of the China Peking Opera Audio-Video Matching Project, covering more than 460 plays, and participated in recording three plays, including *Breeze Pavilion* at age 80. He joined the Party at 64, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chinese Opera Performing Arts Society in 2011, and authored *Ma Lianliang* and *Scattered Notes on This Life*.
By: 本报记者 徐 隽 倪 弋
"A modernized country must be a country under the rule of law." China, advancing on the road to national rejuvenation, is writing a new chapter on the track of the rule of law.
The "Decision" of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee proposed "promoting the organic unity of law-based governance and rule-based governance of the Party" and "enhancing the ability to advance high-quality development, serve the people, prevent and defuse risks, and carry out work using rule-of-law thinking and rule-of-law methods"...
In November 2020, the Party's history saw the first-ever Central Conference on Comprehensive Law-Based Governance, which established Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law as the guiding thought for comprehensive law-based governance.
In November 2025, the Party Central Committee again convened the Central Conference on Comprehensive Law-Based Governance. General Secretary Xi Jinping made important instructions on the work of comprehensive law-based governance, emphasizing that "all departments and all fields must strictly act in accordance with the law and work together to open up a new situation in the construction of a rule-of-law China."
Standing at the important juncture of the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, looking back on the road traveled, the magnificent picture of a rule-of-law China is slowly unfolding. Looking ahead, the construction of a higher-level rule-of-law China is making steady progress at a high speed (蹄疾步稳, ti ji bu wen - "hoof, fast; step, steady") and striding forward.
"The path of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics is growing ever broader"
Governing in accordance with the law, strengthening the foundation to prosper the country (固本兴邦, gu ben xing bang - "solidify, root; prosper, nation").
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the Party Central Committee has incorporated comprehensive law-based governance into the Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy and vigorously advanced it. The overall framework for comprehensive law-based governance has basically taken shape, the system of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics has been continuously improved, and the path of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics is growing ever broader."
Sound legislation, building a solid foundation for good laws and good governance.
On November 6, 2026, the 25th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th NPC Standing Committee voted to pass the Public Interest Litigation Law of the People's Republic of China for Procuratorial Organs. This is an original achievement in the field of public interest protection in practicing Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, contributing Chinese wisdom to solving a worldwide challenge.
As of early November, China has 306 laws currently in effect, more than 600 administrative regulations and supervisory regulations, and more than 15,000 local regulations. The system of socialist laws with Chinese characteristics, with the Constitution at its core, is becoming increasingly complete, providing strong legal support for fostering a sound social situation that is both full of vitality and vigor (生机勃勃, sheng ji bo bo - "life, machine; abundant, abundant") and orderly and well-organized (井然有序, jing ran you xu - "well, orderly; in, order").
Strict law enforcement, with the exercise of power being standardized and efficient.
"The Regulations on Administrative Law Enforcement Supervision and the newly revised Implementing Regulations of the Administrative Reconsideration Law have been promulgated and implemented one after another, the regulation of administrative law enforcement involving enterprises has entered a normalized stage, and nationwide more than 110,000 case leads involving prominent problems in administrative law enforcement involving enterprises have been investigated and corrected, recovering losses of 31.1 billion yuan for enterprises and sorting out and improving more than 4,400 discretionary benchmarks." Li Mingzheng, Vice Minister of Justice, introduced that mechanisms such as rapid response to enterprise law enforcement demands and dynamic monitoring of confiscated income have been established and improved, and the institutional mechanisms for supervising law-based administration have been further strengthened.
Achieving "efficient completion of one matter" in more fields and on a larger scale, and coordinating the advancement of the "comprehensive inspection in one go" reform... The effective market and the proactive government are organically combined, and the law-based business environment, like a continuous source of nourishment or inspiration (源头活水, yuan tou huo shui - "source, head; living, water"), nourishes economic and social development.
Impartial justice, safeguarding social fairness and justice.
On October 16 this year, the highly anticipated first-instance verdict in the lead poisoning case at a kindergarten in Tianshui, Gansu, was announced. The Lanzhou Intermediate People's Court pronounced sentences on Li Huifang, Zhu Jinglin, and others for the crime of producing and selling toxic and harmful food.
From efficiently adjudicating cases involving consumer rights, housing and property management, education and medical care, to improving adjudication rules for labor dispute cases in new forms of employment, to implementing "priority filing, priority adjudication, and priority enforcement" for cases involving people's livelihoods... judicial organs are continuously strengthening judicial protection for people's livelihoods, enabling the people to truly feel that fairness and justice are right by their side.
Law-abiding by all the people, cultivating awareness of abiding by rules and laws.
Not long ago, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council forwarded the "Ninth Five-Year Plan for Carrying out Publicity and Education on the Rule of Law (2026–2030) of the Central Propaganda Department and the Ministry of Justice." On November 1 this year, the Law on Publicity and Education on the Rule of Law has been in effect for one full year.
From "deputy principals for the rule of law" on campuses to "legal literacy ambassadors" in streets, villages, and communities, from solemn oath-taking on National Constitution Day to "rule-of-law publicity groups" going door to door in villages, a rule-of-law publicity and education system covering all the people and running through the entire life course is gradually taking shape, making the rule of law a way of thinking and a behavioral habit for all the people.
The rule of law is an important guarantee for Chinese modernization. Studying, thinking about, practicing, and comprehending Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, consolidating the ideological foundation for the construction of a rule-of-law China, comprehensive law-based governance in the new era has achieved historic accomplishments, and confidence in building a rule-of-law China has become even more steadfast.
"Focusing on building a more complete system of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics and building a higher-level socialist country under the rule of law"
Comprehensive law-based governance, once the key link is grasped, everything falls into place.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, "Focus on building a more complete system of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics and building a higher-level socialist country under the rule of law."
— Promoting the legal norms system to become increasingly complete and perfect (日臻完备, ri zhen wan bei - "day, gradually, reach; complete, perfect").
Good laws and good governance begin with keen insight into and precise response to the propositions of the times.
Many users have encountered similar troubles: AI face-swapping technology being abused and infringing on portrait rights, deepfake videos being difficult to distinguish from real ones, algorithm recommendations leading to information cocoons, and unclear copyright ownership of AI-generated content...
Only by weaving a tight legal net for AI governance can technology develop healthily and benefit the people. On August 15, 2023, the Interim Measures for the Administration of Generative AI Services, jointly formulated by seven departments including the Cyberspace Administration of China, came into effect. This is the world's first dedicated legislation on generative AI.
Going beyond the "precise targeting" of departmental rules, at the level of national legislation, the Cybersecurity Law, the Data Security Law, the Personal Information Protection Law, and others have been enacted. Through systematic legislation, the governance of the online ecosystem has been strengthened, drawing red lines and bottom lines for technology to move upward, toward good, and develop healthily.
Compiling the Civil Code and the Ecological Environment Code, formulating the Law on Promoting the Private Economy, amending the Law on Scientific and Technological Progress, the Lawyers Law, the Foreign Trade Law, and the Regulations on International Maritime Transport... Strengthening legislation in key fields, emerging fields, and foreign-related fields provides strong legal guarantees for the implementation of major national strategies.
Amending the Food Safety Law, formulating the Law on the Construction of a Barrier-Free Environment, the Social Assistance Law, the Medical Security Law, and the Regulations on Promoting Nationwide Reading... Focusing on hot issues concerning people's livelihoods, promptly responding to social concerns, and effectively enhancing the people's sense of gain from the rule of law.
Formulating the Anti-Food Waste Law and the Black Soil Protection Law, issuing the Regulations on Social Insurance Administration and the Provisions on the Supply and Replenishment of International Cruise Ships at Ports of the People's Republic of China... "Small, fast, and agile" legislation demonstrates the wisdom and efficiency of precise governance, striving to ensure that laws can stand, work, and truly be effective.
"Through full research and demonstration, widely soliciting legislative project proposals from all parties, and scientifically arranging legislative projects, we will provide strong legal support for the smooth implementation of the outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan." Huang Wei, Deputy Director of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee, stated.
— Promoting the rule-of-law implementation system to become more efficient.
The vitality of law lies in its implementation, and the authority of law also lies in its implementation.
The anti-fraud center of a public security organ in a certain place was brightly lit. On the screen, abnormal transactions from a suspicious account triggered an early warning model. "Freeze the payment immediately!" The order was issued, and a race against criminals unfolded racing against the clock (争分夺秒, zheng fen duo miao - "struggle, minute; seize, second").
Since the implementation of the Anti-Telecom and Online Fraud Law, such scenes have become the norm across the country. In 2025, public security organs, together with relevant departments, intercepted 3.6 billion fraudulent calls and 3.3 billion fraudulent text messages, and urgently froze 217.07 billion yuan of funds involved in fraud. Behind these strings of numbers is the reassurance and warmth of millions of families being spared property losses, and the firm determination of law enforcement agencies to protect the people's "money bags."
The efficiency of the rule-of-law implementation system is also reflected in the process of law-based governance of grassroots society.
Through "back-to-back" mediation and "face-to-face" consultation, at the Comprehensive Social Governance Center of Wuhou District, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, a neighborhood dispute caused by the installation of elevators in an old residential community was mediated here. Street cadres stationed at the center, public interest lawyers, and people's mediators jointly clarified legal rights and responsibilities for residents, calculated cost sharing, and assessed construction impacts. A plan acceptable to all parties was reached, and a dispute that might have ended up taking a case to court (对簿公堂, dui bu gong tang - "face, court; enter, hall") was resolved before litigation.
This is not only a vivid practice of the Fengqiao model in the new era, but also a microcosm of the standardized operation of nearly 3,000 county-level comprehensive governance centers nationwide. The comprehensive governance centers integrate functions such as mediation, arbitration, administrative adjudication, and administrative reconsideration, achieving "one-stop acceptance, a complete package or a comprehensive set (一揽子, yi lan zi - "one, basket, bundle") of mediation, and whole-chain resolution" of all kinds of demands from the people.
"In the next step, we will comprehensively deepen the standardized construction of comprehensive governance centers, build them into an important basic platform for substantively resolving conflicts and disputes in accordance with the law, and ensure that every demand of the people is handled by someone and handled in accordance with the law." Teng Jiguo, Deputy Secretary-General of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, said.
— Promoting the rule-of-law supervision system to become increasingly rigorous.
To build a rule-of-law China, it is necessary to promptly improve the mechanisms for restricting and supervising the exercise of power, standardize the exercise of power by legislative, law enforcement, and judicial organs, and build a rule-of-law supervision system under the unified leadership of the Party that is comprehensive in coverage, authoritative, and efficient.
In October 2026, with the approval of the Party Central Committee, the Office of the Central Commission for Comprehensive Law-Based Governance launched rule-of-law inspections of leading cadres' performance of duties in accordance with the law. Eight inspection teams were dispatched to eight provinces (autonomous regions) — Hebei, Heilongjiang, Fujian, Shandong, Tibet, Shaanxi, Qinghai, and Xinjiang — as well as the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, to carry out on-site inspections.
"Since 2025, during the special campaign to regulate administrative law enforcement involving enterprises, public security organs have cumulatively released sealed and seized property valued at 1.38 billion yuan, returned 2.22 billion yuan of impounded funds, lawfully changed or lifted freezes on 199,000 accounts, and released 8.98 billion yuan in funds." Yang Weilin, Vice Minister of Public Security, introduced that in the next step, the combination of "immediate rectification" and "long-term establishment" will be adhered to, long-term mechanisms will be further improved, prominent problems will continue to be investigated and corrected, and the level of standardization of law enforcement involving enterprises will be continuously raised.
— Promoting the rule-of-law guarantee system to become more robust.
To build a rule-of-law China, it is necessary to strengthen political, organizational, team, talent, scientific and technological, and information guarantees, providing important support for comprehensive law-based governance.
At present, China has established the world's largest legal education system, cultivating and supplying more than 100,000 specialized rule-of-law talents every year. "We must, under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, promptly accelerate the construction of an independent Chinese legal knowledge system." Teng Jiguo said.
At present, a public legal service system covering urban and rural areas, convenient and efficient, equal and inclusive, has been basically completed. "We will accelerate the implementation of the project to integrate the three major platforms of public legal services — physical entities, hotlines, and the internet — promote the substantive online handling of service matters, better utilize new technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and big data, enhance the intelligence level of legal consultation and business handling, and provide the people with 24-hour 'never closed' public legal services." Li Mingzheng stated.
— Promoting the system of intra-Party regulations to become increasingly complete.
"Adhering to the organic unity of law-based governance and rule-based governance of the Party" is a prominent manifestation of the continuous enrichment and development of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, and holds an important position and significance in the system of the "Twelve Persistences" core essentials.
In December 2025, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting to review the Regulations of the Communist Party of China on the Work of Leading Comprehensive Law-Based Governance.
As of the end of December 2025, there are 3,372 intra-Party regulations currently in effect. "The system of intra-Party regulations is continuously moving toward scientific content, rigorous procedures, complete supporting measures, and effective operation, with the rigid binding force of institutions continuously strengthened, making the Party stronger and more robust through revolutionary tempering." Chu Songyan, Director of the United Front Teaching and Research Department of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee (National Academy of Governance), said.
The "Decision" of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee emphasized "improving the mechanism for linking and coordinating intra-Party regulations with national laws and administrative regulations." This will better promote the organic unity of law-based governance and rule-based governance of the Party, providing a strong institutional guarantee for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
"Pay more attention to the coordination of the rule of law with reform, development, and stability, and pay more attention to safeguarding and promoting social fairness and justice"
The construction of a rule-of-law China in the new era has always adhered to advancing reform under the rule of law, perfecting the rule of law through reform, and deepening reform and development in the stability guaranteed by the rule of law.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, "Pay more attention to the coordination of the rule of law with reform, development, and stability, and pay more attention to safeguarding and promoting social fairness and justice."
The Hainan Free Trade Port is about to usher in the first anniversary of the full island customs closure operation.
In Hainan, "small-cut" legislation, through "one matter, one law," tailors precise solutions for reform and innovation.
The Several Provisions on Facilitating Drug Import, with only 8 articles, makes the filing and customs clearance of imported drugs at the Hainan Free Trade Port more convenient, further shortening the time for drug import;
The Provisions Against Consumer Fraud, with only 20 articles, focuses on classifying and grading penalties for 14 typical types of consumer fraud, such as shortchanging and coercive selling, promoting the improvement of the consumption environment;
From the authorization by the NPC Standing Committee to carry out pilot programs, to the formulation of the Hainan Free Trade Port Law, to the introduction of supporting regulations and rules by Hainan Province, the comprehensive rule-of-law guarantee system of "authorized pilot + national legislation + local legislation" ensures that major reforms have legal basis.
Innovation is the primary driving force for development, and protecting intellectual property rights is protecting innovation.
From the completion of a new round of amendments to the Patent Law, introducing punitive damages and significantly increasing the cost of infringement; to relevant administrative authorities continuously carrying out special campaigns and establishing rapid coordinated protection mechanisms; to people's courts continuously strengthening the construction of specialized intellectual property adjudication institutions and promoting "three-in-one" adjudication of intellectual property cases... An intellectual property protection system with close linkage and efficient coordination among legislation, law enforcement, and justice is continuously improving, injecting strong momentum into high-quality development.
Using rule-of-law thinking and rule-of-law methods to maintain stability requires scientifically grasping the dialectical relationship between "leniency" and "strictness."
In July 2026, the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission held a video conference on the special campaign against gang crime and evil forces nationwide, formally deploying a one-year deepening of the special campaign against gang crime and evil forces, emphasizing the need to highlight the focus of the crackdown. On the basis of lawfully and severely cracking down on traditional gang forces and evil forces, the focus will be on cracking down on organized gang crimes and evil crimes committed through online platforms and "soft violence" means.
For serious violent crimes that seriously endanger national security and social stability, and for telecom and online fraud and gang-related crimes that the people deeply detest, political and legal organs have always maintained a high-pressure posture and severely punished them in accordance with the law. This is the "strict" hand, the cornerstone of maintaining social tranquility.
At the same time, for cases arising from civil disputes, with relatively minor criminal circumstances, where the defendant sincerely repents and obtains forgiveness, the systems of leniency for pleading guilty and accepting punishment and criminal reconciliation are accurately applied, probation is actively applied, and community correction is strengthened. This is the "lenient" hand, aimed at resolving social conflicts and promoting social harmony.
"At present, the Supreme People's Procuratorate is working with relevant departments to study and draft relevant guiding documents, promote the improvement of specific law enforcement and judicial standards for leniency and strictness in different types of cases, and effectively enhance the coordination, uniformity, and effectiveness of policy implementation." Miao Shengming, Deputy Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, said.
The key to governing a country lies in fairness and uprightness.
"Strive to let the people feel fairness and justice in every legal institution, every law enforcement decision, and every judicial case." This is both a solemn commitment and an unremitting pursuit.
To unify adjudication standards, the Supreme People's Court has built a case database for people's courts, collecting guiding cases issued by the Supreme People's Court and reference cases that, after review by the Supreme People's Court, are considered to have demonstrative value for the adjudication of similar cases, and requires that adjudication of cases must consult the case database and refer to similar cases in the database when making judgments.
"Seeing that similar cases across the country are all adjudicated this way, I am fully convinced!" In a civil dispute case of "a consumer slipping and injuring herself in a hotel bathroom" heard by the Wushen Banner People's Court in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the plaintiff said after seeing the "Similar Case Reference" delivered together with the judgment.
"We must deepen the reform of the criminal procedure system centered on adjudication, the reform of the mechanism for separating simple and complex civil litigation procedures, and the reform of jurisdiction over administrative litigation cases, implement and improve the judicial responsibility system, enhance the fairness, stability, and authority of judicial decisions, and strive to achieve the settlement of cases, the resolution of disputes, and harmony among the people." Teng Jiguo said.
The law does not favor the powerful, and the plumb line does not bend to accommodate crookedness.
A series of powerful measures are making the belief in the rule of law increasingly take root in people's hearts, the atmosphere of the rule of law increasingly strong, and the foundation of the rule of law increasingly solid. This will surely provide a strong rule-of-law guarantee for comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization!
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 马跃峰 程 焕
Verdant tea gardens spread across the slopes, extending from the mountaintop to the foot of the hills; the clang of hammers rings out from silver-ornament shops, the faint fragrance of pine resin wafts through batik workshops, and traditional handicraft workshops bustle with activity; the laughter of tourists mingles with the gurgle of streams, echoing through the mountain village... Deep in the heart of the Miao Mountains, Danzhai County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, surges with vigorous vitality.
Danzhai County was once a key county for national poverty alleviation and development, paired with targeted assistance from the National Audit Office. In April 2019, the entire county was lifted out of poverty. Shedding the poverty label is not the finish line, but the starting point of a new life and new struggle. Over the past seven-plus years, Danzhai County has built on its own distinctive resource endowments and explored a path of comprehensive rural revitalization.
Market-oriented, full-chain development of the tea industry
Arriving at Mazhai Village, Longquan Town, Danzhai County, the fragrance of tea greets the nose. In the processing workshop, the procedures of withering, rolling, fermentation, and drying are fully controllable throughout, transforming fresh leaves into dark, glossy black tea.
This scene was hard to imagine in earlier years. Wu Rendong, a 28-year-old returning entrepreneur, recalls that his parents' tea-making tools were crude—an iron wok and a bundle of firewood—and the tea they sold did not even have packaging.
With high altitude, abundant cloud and mist, and soil rich in trace elements such as selenium and zinc, the natural conditions are possessing unique and exceptional natural advantages (得天独厚, de tian du hou - "obtain, heaven, uniquely, thick"). Danzhai County's tea industry got an early start, being selected as a national key tea-producing county as early as 2009. Regrettably, with outdated techniques, low output, and weak brands, the local tea industry long developed in a low-efficiency, extensive manner.
Industrial revitalization is the most important part of something (重中之重, zhong zhong zhi zhong - "middle, middle, particle, middle") of comprehensive rural revitalization. In 2018, seizing the opportunity of paired assistance, the assistance working group actively connected with quality market resources and coordinated efforts to build a poverty-alleviation tea garden in Danzhai County. After the project landed, agricultural technical experts took up permanent residence in the fields to teach and provide hands-on guidance, driving the county-wide restructuring of the industrial chain: contiguous construction of standardized tea gardens, introduction of deep-processing production lines, and development of smart workshops. Leveraging east-west collaboration funds, a 25,000-mu smart tea garden was built in Mazhai Village, integrating digital modules to enable intelligent pest and disease prevention and control, precise water and fertilizer management, and full traceability of products.
In 2023, Wu Rendong returned to his hometown to start a business, no longer limited to self-production and self-sale, but market-oriented, implementing the "Adopt One Mu of Tea Garden · Supporting Rural Revitalization" project. "Even a single ridge of land can be adopted. After customers receive the fresh tea, they can scan a QR code to view the entire process of picking and processing in their exclusive tea garden in real time." Today, Wu Rendong's enterprise has annual sales exceeding 6 million yuan, driving income growth for more than 900 fellow villagers.
The changes in Mazhai Village are a microcosm of the county-wide tea industry transformation: Danzhai County's tea garden area has reached 121,900 mu, nurturing 57 tea enterprises and 28 cooperatives; in 2025, the total output value of tea exceeded 1.2 billion yuan, covering 68 villages in 6 townships and benefiting 38,000 people. "The regional public brand 'Danzhai Cloud Selenium Tea' has established itself, bidding farewell to the extensive development of small workshops," said Long Yongsheng, director of the Danzhai County Tea Industry Development Center.
With tea as the driver, Danzhai County has built a "one primary, two supplementary" characteristic industrial system. The blueberry planting area exceeds 30,000 mu, and Chinese medicinal herbs reach 96,900 mu; derivative products such as tea cuisine, blueberry wine, and traditional Chinese medicine wellness have emerged, with the agricultural product processing conversion rate rising from 18.4% in 2018 to 67.1% in 2025.
Integration breaks boundaries, culture and ecology both monetized
Today, Kala Village in Longquan Town is having a great reputation far and wide (声名在外, sheng ming zai wai - "sound, name, at, outside") for its cultural tourism. Ascending the blue stone steps, passing through several gates, silver-ornament shops, batik workshops, and Miao embroidery stores line up one after another.
Ethnic minority groups account for 90% of Danzhai County's population, with 31 national and provincial-level intangible cultural heritage items, as well as 32 national-level traditional villages and Chinese ethnic minority characteristic villages. How can the "soft power" of ethnic culture be transformed into the "hard support" of comprehensive rural revitalization?
Integration is a new attempt.
With support from assistance funds, Wang Guochun, a representative inheritor of the provincial-level intangible cultural heritage Miao silver ornament forging technique, came to Kala Village, revitalized 40 abandoned stilted buildings, and built the "Silversmith Village" intangible cultural heritage agglomeration platform. "Ethnic culture is not only spiritual wealth, but also a convertible resource." Driven by Wang Guochun, the "Silversmith Village" has attracted dozens of intangible cultural heritage resources to settle in, integrating production, display, experience, and consumption in one place, receiving 200,000 visitors annually and radiating a comprehensive output value of over 10 million yuan. Zhao Yu, the first secretary stationed in the village, remarked with emotion: "Villagers' per capita annual income has increased by more than 5,000 yuan. Deep integration has made culture seen and remembered."
Ethnic culture is colorful and varied (多姿多彩, duo zi duo cai - "many, posture, many, color"), and the natural ecology is uniquely distinctive. Each village in Danzhai County leverages its own advantages to explore differentiated development paths.
Shiqiao Village, Nangao Township, Danzhai County, features spectacular karst landforms and dense ancient fossil deposits. Two years ago, Jin Weilong, who came from Zhejiang, transferred more than 20 mu of riverside wasteland to build the "Dream Butterfly Garden." Here, ancient papermaking is combined with geological study, and immersive courses such as handmade crafts, fossil excavation, and wilderness camping have attracted attention, with short-video traffic accounting for 90% of visitor flow. As tourists increased, Shiqiao Village successively built a geological study base, themed guesthouses, and a wilderness campsite. The industrial chain of food, lodging, tourism, and study has gradually taken shape, with more than 30 households achieving employment at their doorstep.
By optimizing the integration approach, Danzhai County's distinctive resources have radiated new brilliance, accelerating their transformation into economic development advantages. From January to August this year, Danzhai County received 2.3335 million domestic tourists, a year-on-year increase of 12.98%, making the cultural tourism industry a pillar industry of the county.
Endogenous drive, the native land releases its potential
By the shore of East Lake in Danzhai County's urban area, the Cloud Town is built along the water. Hundreds of residential buildings blend with the mountains, with intangible cultural heritage courtyards, boutique inns, cinemas, and theaters having everything one needs (一应俱全, yi ying ju quan - "one, should, all, complete"), where antiquity and modernity converge.
This 4A-level scenic area, opened in July 2017, rose rapidly thanks to county-wide assistance from a caring enterprise, and within just half a year of opening, it ranked among the top single scenic areas in Guizhou Province by visitor numbers. After the transition period ended, operational rights were gradually handed over to the local government.
Facing periodic fluctuations in visitor numbers, Guizhou Danzhai Cloud Town Cultural Tourism Co., Ltd., after taking over the town, has been searching for ways to solve the problem. "We cannot rely solely on throwing money at it; we have to retain people through operations," said Zhang Kun, general manager of the company. After repositioning, the company linked up with surrounding villages and study bases, enriching the experience with intangible cultural heritage performances, themed night tours, and residential wellness, with "slow down, stay longer, settle in" becoming the new operational philosophy.
Upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, the local operations team has explored and refined its approach, and the cultural depth and quality of life of Cloud Town have become increasingly prominent. Since its opening, the town has cumulatively received over 40 million visitors.
Its own efforts cannot be separated from sustained assistance. Since 2016, the National Audit Office has successively dispatched five rounds of cadres to take root in Danzhai, coordinating various assistance resources and breaking through bottlenecks one by one in key areas such as infrastructure, characteristic industries, and the living environment. Since poverty alleviation, assistance units have trained more than 2,000 grassroots cadres, industry leaders, and technical experts in Danzhai. The transformation from "external blood transfusion" to "self-hematopoiesis"—this local force that cannot be taken away—is precisely the greatest confidence for normalized assistance.
Starting this year, normalized assistance has been incorporated into the overall implementation of the comprehensive rural revitalization strategy. Standing at a new starting point, Danzhai County places greater emphasis on organically combining external resource support with internal capacity building, transforming from "passively receiving aid" to "actively developing."
A deeper transformation lies in people's hearts. Jiashi Village, Paidiao Township, Danzhai County, was once a deeply impoverished village, and now it ranks among the county's first batch of rural revitalization demonstration villages. Before the Spring Festival this year, 16 Party members working away from home jointly wrote a letter to the village Party branch, expressing their hope to return and jointly pursue development. "This trust is weighty, showing that our fellow villagers have completely shed the ideological burden of 'waiting, relying, and demanding.'" Speaking of this joint letter, Wang Mingke, secretary of the village Party branch, said.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 11) A Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on November 11: At the invitation of Thai Prime Minister Anutin, Premier Li Qiang of the State Council will pay an official visit to Thailand from November 13 to 15.
At the invitation of Philippine President Marcos, rotating chair of ASEAN, Premier Li Qiang of the State Council will travel to Manila, the Philippines, from November 15 to 16 to attend the 29th China-ASEAN Summit.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 11) Wang Huning, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, met in Beijing on the 11th with the special envoy of the Cuban Party and government, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla.
Wang Huning stated that under the helm and guidance of President Xi Jinping and President Miguel Díaz-Canel, the relations between the two parties and two countries of China and Cuba have reached a new height and demonstrated a new dynamism, and the building of a China-Cuba community with a shared future has continuously made new progress. China's policy of long-term friendship with Cuba has remained constant and unchanged (始终如一, shi zhong ru yi - "always, as, enter, one"), and China firmly supports Cuba's just struggle against sanctions, blockades, and foreign interference. It is believed that the Communist Party of Cuba will lead the Cuban people to continuously achieve new accomplishments on the path of building socialism.
Rodríguez stated that Cuba places Cuba-China relations in an important position in its overall diplomatic landscape and thanked China for its support in Cuba's response to the extremely complex situation and external unilateral coercive measures. The important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries is an important guide for both sides to advance bilateral relations, and Cuba is willing to work hand in hand with China to jointly build a Cuba-China community with a shared future.
Wang Dongfeng and others attended the meeting.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 颜 珂
In early November, in Hengyang County, Hunan, the lingering rain had just ceased. Luo Xiaocheng began another day of "field patrols."
"Building high-standard farmland is no easy task; I have to keep a close eye on the land I farm myself." The badge on Luo Xiaocheng's chest revealed another identity of this post-80s new-generation farmer: supervisor of high-standard farmland construction.
The "Decision" of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed to "be adept at relying on the strength of the masses to do work well and resolve contradictions."
High-standard farmland construction involves a wide scope, large capital investment, and a long supervision chain, harboring hidden integrity risks. In October this year, Huanglin Village, Xidu Town, Hengyang County, launched high-standard farmland construction with a total investment of over 8 million yuan, one of the village's few major projects in recent years.
Hengyang County is a major grain-producing county in Hunan. It is necessary to build both "high-yield fields" and "reassuring fields" — how should supervision be carried out?
"The problem of insufficient manpower needs to be solved through some means," said Liu Donglin, secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of Xidu Town. "This year, high-standard farmland construction in Xidu Town involves 10 villages; relying solely on the town's discipline inspection commission and functional departments for supervision is not enough."
The Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervision Commission of Hengyang County carried out in-depth special rectification efforts, both investigating and handling disciplinary and legal violations and deeply reflecting on promoting governance through case handling: to do a good thing well, one must not only address "leaks and seepage" but also avoid acting with one-sided enthusiasm or lack of coordination (剃头挑子一头热, ti tou tiao zi yi tou re - "shave head, pick, one end, hot").
The Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervision Commission of Hengyang County took the lead in exploring the "field whistleblower" mechanism. Village and group cadres, large grain-growing households, and enthusiastic villagers formed mass supervision teams, allowing the "supervision whistle" to reach directly into the fields.
"Who better to care about the quality of farmland renovation and upgrading than those who farm it?" Luo Xiaocheng said. Walking to a spot by the field edge, Luo Xiaocheng took out his phone to take photos: stones for repairing the irrigation canal were piled by the field edge, not yet cleared away. "I've found similar situations before. I take photos and send them to the town's discipline inspection commission in the morning, and they can be handled by the afternoon."
From construction materials to construction standards, the supervisors keep a tight watch and inspect carefully. Black sand mixed with cement makes the ratio indistinguishable. The construction party switched to yellow sand, which makes the color distinct and shows the cement dosage is sufficient, putting everyone at ease. As of October this year, Hengyang County has established 95 "field whistleblower" supervision teams.
"Supervisors don't just watch and supervise; everyone also discusses and works things out together," said Yan Wei, director of the Agricultural Construction Project Affairs Center of Hengyang County. Where the terrain is low-lying, where drainage and irrigation are inconvenient — villagers have the most say.
At the initial stage of project design, the construction party came to Huanglin Village to solicit opinions. Luo Xiaocheng suggested adding pre-buried drainage pipes in low-lying areas of the fields, "just remove the blockage and water can drain away, no need to cut openings in the field ridges — saving time and effort."
"The 'field whistleblower' mechanism fully relies on the masses, promoting the coordination and integration of discipline inspection and supervision, industry regulation, and mass supervision, ensuring from the source that high-standard farmland is built well and managed properly," said Chen Yun, member of the Standing Committee of the Hengyang County Party Committee, secretary of the County Discipline Inspection Commission, and director of the County Supervision Commission.
On the leveled land, Chinese milk vetch seeds were sown and have just sprouted recently. Luo Xiaocheng feels warm at heart: "Once the construction is complete, I'll rent some more fields!"
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He who unites the multitudes of the world does so through wealth; he who manages the wealth of the world does so through law.
Strengthening financial and accounting supervision is not only an important safeguard for strict financial and economic discipline, but also an inherent requirement of advancing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has issued important instructions and directives on strengthening financial and accounting supervision on multiple occasions, emphasizing that "Party committees at all levels, especially principal responsible comrades, must assume political responsibility, coordinate and manage fiscal, taxation, auditing and other work in an integrated manner, strictly enforce financial and economic discipline, and manage and use funds from all sources well."
In 2023, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on Further Strengthening Financial and Accounting Supervision Work, providing top-level design for the construction of the financial and accounting supervision system.
All regions and departments have conscientiously implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and directives, and in accordance with the requirements of the Opinions, have solidly carried out special campaigns for financial and accounting supervision, promoting governance through actual cases (以案促治, yi an cu zhi - "use, cases, promote, governance") and promoting rectification through investigation, achieving notable results.
Major and important cases are investigated to the end, and verification, rectification, and joint efforts are advanced in tandem
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "With regard to the clues to problems reported and transferred by auditing departments, investigation and handling must never be allowed to end without a conclusion."
In 2023, a clue reported by the auditing department brought to light a major case in Anxiang County, Hunan, involving the fraudulent acquisition and misappropriation of agricultural subsidy funds benefiting farmers. Relevant entities at the county and township levels, colluding with grassroots units and financial institutions, engaged in long-term fraud and deception, intercepting and arbitrarily misappropriating central government funds intended to benefit farmers at every level. As subsidies were taking advantage of every opportunity to extract profit (雁过拔毛, yan guo ba mao - "wild goose, pass, pluck, hair") through the layers of transfer, the benefits of the pro-farmer policies failed to reach the pockets of grain-growing households, and the vital interests of the masses were seriously infringed upon.
The financial departments took immediate action, working together with disciplinary inspection and supervision organs to conduct investigating thoroughly and deeply (深挖彻查, shen wa che cha - "deep, dig, thorough, investigate") and strictly pursue accountability, seriously handling those responsible. At the same time, they optimized and improved the "one-card" issuance mechanism for agricultural subsidy funds, opening up the entire chain of fund verification, issuance, and supervision, and installing a "safety valve" of full-process supervision for agricultural subsidy funds.
In 2024, a penalty notice shook China's certified public accountant industry. The Ministry of Finance, together with the China Securities Regulatory Commission, imposed penalties on PricewaterhouseCoopers Zhongtian Certified Public Accountants LLP: confiscation of illegal gains and fines totaling 441 million yuan, along with a warning, suspension of business operations for 6 months, and revocation of its Guangzhou branch. The firm had serious illegal problems in the audit project of Evergrande Real Estate, disrupting market order and severely damaging the credibility of the industry as the "gatekeeper" of the market economy.
A penalty notice is not the end of supervision. Cases of waste and scrap recycling enterprises exploiting fiscal reward and subsidy policies to arbitrage have been investigated and dealt with, and the full-chain review mechanism for reward and subsidy funds has been improved; a series of cases of illegal tax rebates and fees in investment attraction have been investigated and dealt with, with negative list management implemented to block "policy depressions" at the source; the supervision mechanism for the practice quality of certified public accountants has been continuously improved, and a bad apple or person who spoils the whole group (害群之马, hai qun zhi ma - "harm, group, of, horse") has been resolutely eliminated... Over the past three years, the special campaign for financial and accounting supervision has dealt heavy blows in investigating major and important cases, using individual cases to promote the governance of similar cases and filling institutional shortcomings.
Strictly enforce financial and economic discipline, and improve the supervision system
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "We must continue to improve institutions and perfect the system, so that the supervision system fits the Party's leadership system, integrates into the national governance system, and better transforms institutional advantages into governance effectiveness."
Over the past three years, the special campaign for financial and accounting supervision has been fully rolled out in a posture of "reaching the edges horizontally and reaching the bottom vertically," weaving a dense supervision network and consolidating the foundation for development.
In the summer of 2023, an inspection team sent by the Ministry of Finance to a certain ministry or commission carefully unraveled the clues, following the timeline of procurement contracts and noticing a deliberately "timed" operation: on the very last day of the contract's validity period, this department suddenly added a printing plan of 352 million yuan, attempting to bypass bidding and tendering procedures through a "last-minute" operation...
In inspections of 10 central departments, "upper-lower linkage" and "carrying the pole straight to the bottom" were routine operations, and problems such as illegal issuance of subsidies and allowances, and allocation of assets exceeding budgets, standards, and plans were investigated and dealt with one by one.
In the spring of 2026, in Yijing Town, Changfeng County, Anhui Province, the long-silted irrigation canal was finally dredged. Gurgling clear water flowed into the wheat fields, adding more guarantee to a good harvest.
A canal of clear water reflects the sincere original aspiration of financial and accounting supervision in safeguarding people's livelihood. In the supervision and inspection of the use and management of funds for high-standard farmland construction, inspection teams went deep into the fields to observe the actual situation, entered farmhouse courtyards to listen to the truth, and problems such as misappropriation and diversion of funds and passing off inferior goods as high quality (以次充好, yi ci chong hao - "use, inferior, substitute, good") in project construction were leaving no place to hide or no way to escape detection (无所遁形, wu suo dun xing - "not, have, place, hide, form"), while problems such as idle and damaged facilities were resolved in a timely manner.
Local inspections directly targeted the crux of the problems and taking decisive and tough action to deal with problems (动真碰硬, dong zhen peng ying - "move, real, bump, hard"). The "lids" on problems such as new hidden debt, unreal debt resolution, and leakage and loss of funds for affordable housing projects were all lifted.
Where problems point, supervision follows. All regions and departments have used the results of financial and accounting supervision inspections as an important basis for plugging loopholes and improving management, cumulatively formulating and revising more than 12,000 institutional documents. All localities have strictly supervised the funds for high-standard farmland construction, established and improved long-term mechanisms for preventing and resolving local government debt risks, and relied on penetrating supervision to regulate the use of various special funds... The "problem list" exposes the crux of the problems, the "rectification list" lands with tangible results, and the "institutional list" strengthening the foundation and basic elements (固本培元, gu ben pei yuan - "solidify, root, cultivate, origin"), with the closed-loop management mechanism continuously improving and the defense line of financial and economic discipline being built ever stronger.
Driven by the special campaign, the reach of financial and accounting supervision has now vertically penetrated central departments and county and township grassroots levels, and horizontally covered key areas of financial and economic operations such as budget management, government procurement, asset management, and debt risk management. The "five-in-one" supervision system—with financial departments exercising primary supervision, relevant departments supervising according to their responsibilities, various units conducting internal supervision, intermediary institutions conducting practice supervision, and industry associations conducting self-discipline supervision—has been continuously improved and perfected in practice, effectively guaranteeing the implementation of national macro policies.
Injecting supervisory momentum into full and rigorous self-governance of the Party and the integrated advancement of "not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt"
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "We must raise political positioning, promote the standardized exercise of power by managing the 'money bag' and the 'account book,' promptly calibrate and correct deviations, and strictly enforce financial and economic discipline."
In 2024, the Ministry of Finance coordinated the supervision and inspection of the use and management of nutrition and dietary subsidy funds with the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission's "special rectification of prominent problems in food safety and dietary fund management in primary and secondary school cafeterias." After the inspection team, together with local disciplinary inspection and supervision organs, locked onto clues to problems, all parties acted swiftly. Within 5 days, the local disciplinary inspection and supervision organ had taken lien measures against one person, and another two were criminally detained according to law, forming a strong deterrent.
Over the past three years, financial and accounting supervision cadres, as "professional sappers," have coordinated and linked up with disciplinary inspection and supervision organs to precisely "clear mines."
The Ministry of Finance has established and improved a coordination mechanism between financial and accounting supervision and intra-Party supervision, reporting more than 1,600 items of problem clues, typical cases, and supervision data information to the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission, the Central Inspection Office, and the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee; selected professional backbone personnel have captured subtle traces from fund trajectories and bill flows, time and again following clues to tear open the openings of problems.
Local explorations and practices have also been highly effective. Shandong Province has promoted the coordination and linkage between financial departments and disciplinary inspection and supervision departments, doing a good job of policy alignment, information sharing, and clue transfer; Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, has deepened the "simultaneous deployment, simultaneous inspection, simultaneous analysis and judgment, simultaneous reporting, and simultaneous rectification" of financial and accounting supervision and inspection supervision...
"Adhere to combining precise problem discovery with effective problem resolution, keep the sharp sword of financial and accounting supervision always hanging high, and safeguard the implementation of the Party Central Committee's major decisions and deployments." A relevant responsible comrade of the Ministry of Finance stated.
Rectifying financial and economic order with thunderous measures, safeguarding economic security with institutional rigidity—what is consolidated is the foundation for development, and what is protected is the well-being of the people's livelihood.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Shenzhen, November 11) (Reporter Xiong Jiayi) On November 11, the news center for the 2026 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting Week was inaugurated in Shenzhen.
From November 18 to 19, the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting will be held in Shenzhen.
The APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting Week news center is located in Hall 2 of the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center (Futian), covering an area of approximately 15,000 square meters. It features functional zones including a media work area, technical support area, press conference area, and a "Journalists' Home" service area, and will provide services to nearly 5,000 Chinese and foreign journalists covering the event.
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Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 11) (Reporter Wang Haonan) The Central Publicity Team for studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee gave a presentation in Beijing on November 11. Yin Li, member of the Central Publicity Team, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, delivered the presentation report.
At the presentation, Yin Li, closely focusing on studying and implementing 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 Persistently Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party" adopted at the plenary session, combined with studying and implementing Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, gave a comprehensive and systematic explanation and presentation on the great significance of the plenary session, the drafting process and prominent features of the Decision, and the important considerations, overall requirements, strategic tasks, and major measures for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
Yin Li emphasized that studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee well should be treated as a major political task, firmly uphold the Two Establishments (两个确立), resolutely achieve the Two Upholds (两个维护), continuously forge political loyalty and political capability commensurate with the capital region, advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party persistently with higher standards and more concrete measures, promote the formation of vivid practice of the plenary session's spirit on the land of Beijing, and provide strong guarantees for writing the Beijing chapter of Chinese modernization.
After the presentation, Yin Li went to the Party-Mass Service Center of the Beijing Municipal Administrative Center, where he interacted and exchanged views with representatives of cadres and the masses from the grassroots frontline, providing serious and in-depth answers to issues of concern to everyone such as "receiving complaints and handling them promptly" and ideological and political education.
(People's Daily, Beijing, November 11) (Reporter Li Changyu) Li Ganjie, member of the Central Publicity Team, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and head of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, delivered a presentation report on the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee at the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee on November 11.
Li Ganjie, focusing on studying and implementing General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech and the Decision adopted at the plenary session, gave a systematic presentation and in-depth explanation of the spirit of the plenary session from the aspects of deeply understanding and grasping the great significance of the plenary session, deeply studying and comprehending the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech, comprehensively and accurately understanding the overall requirements, strategic tasks, and major measures for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and put forward requirements for the united front system to do a good job in studying and implementing the spirit.
Li Ganjie emphasized that the united front system should deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the Two Establishments, resolutely achieve the Two Upholds, comprehensively and deeply do a good job in conveying and studying, and effectively unify thoughts and actions to the spirit of the plenary session, especially the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech. It should resolutely shoulder the political responsibility for managing the Party and governing the Party, focus on the major deployments, important tasks, and key work of the Decision, deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, adhere to the strict tone, strengthen strict measures, cultivate a strict atmosphere, and unswervingly advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the united front system. It should organize multi-form, wide-coverage learning, publicity, and interpretation, guide united front members to accurately grasp the spirit of the plenary session, and support and promote the democratic parties and personages without party affiliation to strengthen their own construction.
Members of the leading group of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, all cadres of the department's organs and the discipline inspection and supervision group stationed there, members of the leading groups of directly affiliated public institutions and system units, and members of the leading groups and all cadres of the organs of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission, the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, and the All-China Federation of Taiwan Compatriots attended the meeting.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 11) The report meeting of the Central Publicity Team for studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was held at the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee on November 11. Li Shulei, member of the Central Publicity Team, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, delivered the presentation report.
At the presentation, Li Shulei, closely focusing on General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the plenary session and the Decision of the plenary session, clarified the great significance of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, explained the major achievements in the cause of the Party and the state since the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the strategic considerations of the Party Central Committee in determining the agenda of the plenary session, interpreted the importance, urgency, overall requirements, strategic tasks, and major measures of persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and put forward requirements for effectively implementing the spirit of the plenary session. He pointed out that the Decision adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply implements Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, makes systematic arrangements for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, clarifies the direction of efforts for further winning the historical initiative of strengthening the Party and the country, and is a programmatic document for advancing the great new project of Party building in the new era. It is necessary to more deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the Two Establishments, resolutely achieve the Two Upholds, implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee in place, do a good job in Party building in the field of publicity and culture with higher standards and more concrete measures, and continuously strengthen the Party spirit of Communists. Deeply studying and implementing the spirit of the plenary session is a major political task for the whole Party at present and for a period to come. The publicity and culture system should raise political positioning, enhance responsibility and commitment, take practical and effective action with a sense of urgency that brooks no delay, and strive to create a strong atmosphere for studying, publicizing, and implementing the spirit of the plenary session.
(People's Daily, Shijiazhuang, November 11) (Reporter Ma Chen) The Central Publicity Team for studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee gave a presentation in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province on November 11. Qi Yu, member of the Central Publicity Team and Secretary of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, delivered the presentation report.
At the presentation, Qi Yu, focusing on studying and implementing 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, connecting with the great practice of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era, gave a systematic presentation and in-depth explanation from the aspects of deeply understanding the great significance of the plenary session, accurately grasping the core essence of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the plenary session, and the importance, urgency, overall requirements, strategic tasks, and major measures of persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
Qi Yu stated that practice has fully proved that in the face of complex and ever-changing situations, in the face of arduous and heavy tasks, and in the face of dangerous and turbulent situations (风高浪急, feng gao lang ji - "wind, high; waves, urgent") and even raging storms, the core is the mainstay and the anchor, and is the greatest reliance and fundamental guarantee for victory. The whole Party should deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the Two Establishments, strengthen the Four Consciousnesses, firm up the Four Confidences, achieve the Two Upholds, and unswervingly advance in the direction guided by General Secretary Xi Jinping.
On the afternoon of the 11th, Qi Yu successively went to Yucheng Community in Qiaoxi District, Shijiazhuang City, and Tayuanzhuang Village in Zhengding County to carry out presentations and interact and exchange views with representatives of grassroots Party members and the masses.
(People's Daily, Shenyang, November 11) (Reporter Liu Hongchao) The Central Publicity Team for studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee gave a presentation in Liaoning Province on November 11. Huai Jinpeng, member of the Central Publicity Team, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Education, delivered the presentation report.
At the presentation, Huai Jinpeng, focusing on studying and implementing 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, introduced the basic situation of the plenary session, the drafting situation and main features of the Decision, and gave a comprehensive presentation and in-depth explanation of the spirit of the plenary session, focusing on deeply studying and comprehending the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, and comprehensively and accurately understanding the overall requirements, strategic tasks, and major measures for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
Huai Jinpeng stated in his presentation that studying and implementing the spirit of the plenary session should be treated as a major political task, placed on an important agenda, carefully organized and implemented, unswervingly realizing the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, and continuously opening up new prospects for managing and governing the Party and rejuvenating and strengthening the Party in the new era.
On the afternoon of the 11th, Huai Jinpeng went to China Medical University to carry out a presentation for teachers and students, emphasizing that the education system should transform the spirit of the plenary session into concrete actions for strengthening Party building and advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, providing strong guarantees for building a strong education country. Huai Jinpeng also visited Neusoft Medical Systems Co., Ltd., where he interacted and exchanged views with workers on the production frontline and students jointly trained by Northeastern University and Neusoft Group.
(People's Daily, Changchun, November 11) (Reporter Liu Yiqing) The Central Publicity Team for studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee gave a presentation in Jilin Province on November 11. Deng Maosheng, member of the Central Publicity Team and Deputy Director of the Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee, delivered the presentation report.
At the presentation, Deng Maosheng, focusing on deeply studying and implementing 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 comprehensive presentation and in-depth explanation of the spirit of the plenary session from the aspects of deeply understanding and grasping the great significance of the plenary session, and comprehensively and accurately understanding the overall requirements, strategic tasks, and major measures for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
Deng Maosheng stated in his presentation that Party members and cadres at all levels should, in accordance with the unified arrangements of the Party Central Committee, treat studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee as a major political task, place it on an important agenda, carefully organize and implement it, coordinate and integrate studying and implementing the spirit of the plenary session with deeply studying and implementing Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, and welcome the successful convening of the 21st National Congress of the CPC with concrete actions.
On the afternoon of the 11th, Deng Maosheng went to the centralized office area of the Executive Committee of the 2027 33rd World University Winter Games in Changchun, located in Changchun City, Jilin Province, to carry out a presentation and interact and exchange views with volunteers of the Universiade around studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee.
(People's Daily, Harbin, November 11) (Reporter Liu Mengdan) The report meeting of the Central Publicity Team for studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was held in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province on November 11. Liang Huiling, member of the Central Publicity Team, Deputy Secretary of the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee and Governor of the Province, delivered the presentation report.
At the presentation, Liang Huiling, closely focusing on studying and implementing 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 Persistently Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party" adopted at the plenary session, gave a comprehensive presentation and in-depth explanation of the spirit of the plenary session from the aspects of deeply understanding the great significance of the plenary session, deeply studying and implementing Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, deeply studying and comprehending the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the plenary session, and comprehensively and accurately understanding the guiding ideology and principles, strategic tasks, and major measures for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
Liang Huiling emphasized that, in accordance with the unified arrangements of the Party Central Committee, studying and implementing the spirit of the plenary session should be treated as a major political task, placed on an important agenda, carefully organized and implemented, further consolidating the political loyalty of "standing in the far north, with hearts toward the Party Central Committee," persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party with concrete actions, providing strong guarantees for comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization, continuously opening up new prospects for managing and governing the Party and rejuvenating and strengthening the Party in the new era, and striving to write a new chapter of Chinese modernization in Heilongjiang.
On the afternoon of the 11th, Liang Huiling also went to the Harbin Military Engineering Memorial Hall at Harbin Engineering University to carry out grassroots presentations on the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and interacted and exchanged views with teachers and students on site.
(People's Daily, Hangzhou, November 11) (Reporter Dou Hanyang) The report meeting of the Central Publicity Team for studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was held in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province on November 11. Qu Qingshan, member of the Central Publicity Team and President of the Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee, delivered the presentation report.
At the presentation, Qu Qingshan, closely adhering to the presentation theme, focusing on studying and implementing General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the Decision adopted at the plenary session, gave a comprehensive presentation and in-depth explanation of the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee from the aspects of fully 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, comprehensively and accurately understanding the overall requirements, strategic tasks, and major measures for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, combined with the actual situation of Zhejiang.
Qu Qingshan stated in his presentation that the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was a very important meeting held at a critical period for basically realizing socialist modernization. In accordance with the unified arrangements of the Party Central Committee, studying and implementing the spirit of the plenary session should be treated as a major political task, closely integrated with deeply studying and implementing Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, placed on an important agenda, carefully organized and implemented, and focused on the major deployments, important tasks, and key work of the Decision, formulating specific plans in light of actual conditions to implement them.
Before the meeting, Qu Qingshan also went to Xiaoyingxiang Community in Xiaoying Street, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou City, to interact and exchange views with grassroots Party members, cadres, and the masses around studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee.
(People's Daily, Hefei, November 11) (Reporter Li Junjie) The report meeting of the Central Publicity Team for studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was held in Hefei, Anhui on November 11. Wang Jiang, member of the Central Publicity Team, Deputy Director in charge of daily work of the Central Financial Commission Office and Deputy Secretary in charge of daily work of the Central Financial Work Commission, delivered the presentation report.
At the presentation, Wang Jiang, closely focusing on studying and implementing General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the plenary session and the Decision adopted at the plenary session, gave a systematic presentation and in-depth explanation of the spirit of the plenary session from the aspects of deeply understanding the great significance of the plenary session, deeply understanding the great achievements in full and rigorous self-governance of the Party since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, deeply studying and comprehending Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, and deeply studying and comprehending the overall requirements and strategic tasks for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
Wang Jiang stated in his presentation that, in accordance with the unified arrangements of the Party Central Committee, focusing on the major deployments, important tasks, and key work of the Decision, it is necessary to effectively enhance the political consciousness, ideological consciousness, and action consciousness of studying and implementing, ensure that all arrangements of the Decision are implemented and landed, continuously open up new prospects for managing and governing the Party and rejuvenating and strengthening the Party in the new era, and make greater contributions to the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation.
On the afternoon of the 10th, Wang Jiang went deep into Qinxinhu Community in Wanghu Street, Baohe District, Hefei City, and Hua'an Securities Company to carry out interactive presentations, exchanging views face-to-face with grassroots Party members, cadres, and the masses around studying and implementing the spirit of the plenary session.
(People's Daily, Fuzhou, November 11) (Reporter Fu Wen) The report meeting of the Central Publicity Team for studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was held in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province on November 11. Hu Heping, member of the Central Publicity Team and Deputy Head in charge of daily work of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, delivered the presentation report.
At the presentation, Hu Heping, focusing on studying and implementing General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the plenary session and the Decision adopted at the plenary session, gave a systematic presentation and in-depth explanation of the spirit of the plenary session from the aspects of deeply studying and comprehending the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the plenary session, deeply comprehending that Xi Jinping's thought on Party building is the fundamental guideline for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, comprehensively and accurately understanding the importance, urgency, and overall requirements of persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and deeply comprehending the strategic tasks and major measures for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
Hu Heping stated that the Decision marks a new height in our Party's understanding of the laws of building a Marxist governing party and is a programmatic document for advancing the great new project of Party building in the new era. In accordance with the unified arrangements of the Party Central Committee, studying and implementing the spirit of the plenary session should be treated as a major political task placed on an important agenda and carefully organized and implemented; it is necessary to focus on the major deployments, important tasks, and key work of the Decision, and formulate specific plans in light of actual conditions to implement them.
Before the report meeting, Hu Heping also went to Xiadang Township in Shouning County, Ningde City, and Fujian Normal University, where he held symposiums and exchanged views with grassroots cadres, the masses, and representatives of teachers and students, presenting the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee.
(People's Daily, Changsha, November 11) (Reporter Shen Zhilin) The report meeting of the Central Publicity Team for studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was recently held in Changsha, Hunan. Chen Yangyong, member of the Central Publicity Team and President of Qiushi Magazine, delivered the presentation report.
At the presentation, Chen Yangyong, focusing on studying and implementing 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 Persistently Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party" adopted at the plenary session, gave a comprehensive presentation and in-depth explanation of the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee from the aspects of deeply understanding and grasping 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, comprehensively and accurately understanding the overall requirements, strategic tasks, and major measures for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party proposed at the plenary session, combined with the actual situation of Hunan.
Chen Yangyong emphasized that this plenary session's focus on studying the issue of persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party was a major decision made by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, grasping the historical orientation of the development of the cause of the Party and the state, focusing on the overall situation of Chinese modernization, assessing the situation and considering the overall picture, fully reflecting the firm confidence and enterprising posture of the Party and the people in further winning the historical initiative of strengthening the Party and the country.
On the afternoon of the 10th, Chen Yangyong went to Hunan University to guide the youth teachers and students' theory publicity team in preparing lessons around presenting the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, and held symposiums and exchanged views with representatives of teachers and students; on the afternoon of the 11th, he went to the Achievement Exhibition Hall of the Changsha Zhigu National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone and the Hunan Province Computing Power Dispatch Center for research and presentations, exchanging views face-to-face with enterprise representatives and grassroots workers.
(People's Daily, Guiyang, November 11) (Reporter Chen Junyi) The Central Publicity Team for studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee gave a presentation in Guizhou Province on November 11. Xie Chuntao, member of the Central Publicity Team and Vice President in charge of daily work of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee (National Academy of Governance), delivered the presentation report.
At the presentation, Xie Chuntao profoundly clarified the great significance of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, and closely focusing on General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the plenary session and the "Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Several Major Issues Concerning Persistently Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party," gave a comprehensive presentation and in-depth explanation from the aspects of 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 for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
After the report meeting, Xie Chuntao went to the Guizhou Long March Culture Digital Art Museum (Red Ribbon) to carry out a presentation and interact and exchange views with representatives of grassroots cadres and the masses.
(People's Daily, Lhasa, November 11) (Reporter Xian Gan) The report meeting of the Central Publicity Team for studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was held in Lhasa City, Tibet on November 10. Li Guoxi, member of the Central Publicity Team and member of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, delivered the presentation report.
At the presentation, Li Guoxi, focusing on studying and implementing 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 presentation and in-depth explanation of the spirit of the plenary session from the aspects of combining with studying and implementing Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, deeply understanding the great significance of the plenary session, the new progress and new achievements in the cause of the Party and the state since the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, and comprehensively and accurately understanding the overall requirements, strategic tasks, and major measures for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
Li Guoxi stated that Tibet, as a border ethnic region, should treat deeply studying and implementing the spirit of the plenary session as a major political task, deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the Two Establishments, strengthen the Four Consciousnesses, firm up the Four Confidences, and achieve the Two Upholds. It should focus on the major deployments, important tasks, and key work of the Decision, do a good job in implementation in light of actual conditions, strengthen education in loyalty to the Party, strengthen grassroots Party building work in border areas, further forge a sense of community for the Chinese nation and advance the building of the community of the Chinese nation, persistently advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and strive to build a new socialist Tibet that is united, prosperous, civilized, harmonious, and beautiful.
After the report meeting, Li Guoxi also went to Gala Village in Bayi District, Nyingchi City, Tibet, to carry out interactive presentations and exchange views face-to-face with local Party members and the masses around studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee.
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Q: The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party deliberated and adopted the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning Persistently and Continuously Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party" (hereinafter referred to as the "Decision"). Please share your understanding and views on "persistently and continuously."
A: Party building bears on the future and destiny of the Party and on the success or failure of the cause of the Party and the state. When General Secretary Xi Jinping explained to the Plenary Session the relevant circumstances concerning the drafting of the "Decision," he used the "three inevitable requirements" to profoundly elucidate the importance and urgency of persistently and continuously advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, which indeed deeply alerted us and made us feel a great sense of responsibility. Our Party, as a Marxist party armed with scientific theory, has its vanguard nature and its fundamental purpose of wholeheartedly serving the people, which determine that it must build the Party with strict standards and govern and manage the Party with strict discipline. Over the past 105 years, our Party has consistently examined, forged, and improved itself with strict requirements, strict standards, and strict measures, growing step by step from small to large, from weak to strong, and uniting and leading the people in continuously advancing from victory to victory. Since the new era, under the strong leadership of the Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, full and rigorous self-governance of the Party has opened up a new realm of self-revolution for the century-old major Party, promoted historic achievements and historic changes in the cause of the Party and the state, and the Party and the people have won the historical initiative to strengthen the Party and strengthen the country. Full and rigorous self-governance of the Party has had enormous and far-reaching impacts on Party building and on the cause of the Party and the state, has received high recognition and support from the entire Party, the entire military, and people of all ethnic groups across the country, and is a strategic choice that wins the people's hearts and accords with the people's will — by no means an expedient measure. The "Decision" deeply analyzes the profound changes in the world situation, the national situation, and the Party's situation, and points out that the tasks of the Party uniting and leading the people in safeguarding national sovereignty, security, and development interests have become more arduous, the tasks of the Party uniting and leading the people in promoting reform and development and maintaining social harmony and stability have become more arduous, the tasks of the Party in maintaining its advanced nature and purity have become more arduous, and new situations and new problems pose major challenges to the Party's governing capacity, leadership level, quality of the ranks, and resistance to corruption and prevention of degeneration under the new circumstances. The longer the Party exercises governance, the longer it enjoys peace and prosperity, and the more complex the environment, the more it must govern and manage the Party strictly with a strong sense of urgency, persistently and continuously advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party — this is the common will of the entire Party and the common expectation of the people of the whole country. We must unify our thoughts and actions with the spirit of the Plenary Session, deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the Two Establishments (两个确立), resolutely achieve the Two Upholds (两个维护), and with higher standards and more concrete measures persistently and continuously advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, continuously eliminate viruses that erode the Party's healthy body, ensure that the Party never changes its nature, never changes its color, and never changes its flavor, always remains the strong leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and ensure that the cause of the Party and the people advances steadily and far.
Q: The "Decision" proposes that strengthening Party spirit is the fundamental task of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. Why is it called the "fundamental task"? How should this fundamental task be grasped deeply and firmly and achieved with tangible results?
A: The "Decision" prominently emphasizes that "strengthening Party spirit is the fundamental task of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party" and makes important arrangements for strengthening the Party spirit of Communists, fully reflecting our Party's profound grasp of the characteristics and laws of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era, and seizing the key and crux of governing and managing the Party, revitalizing the Party, and strengthening the Party. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "the firm Party spirit of Chinese Communists is an important guarantee for our Party to maintain its advanced nature and purity and to improve its leadership level and governing capacity," that "Party spirit is the cornerstone of Party members and cadres in establishing themselves, establishing their careers, establishing their words, and establishing their virtue," and that "the most fundamental aspect of speaking politics is speaking Party spirit." In reality, the various problems that emerge among Party members and cadres, including problems of work style, problems of views on political achievements, and problems of corruption, are in the final analysis all problems of Party spirit. Now, the proportion of Party members and cadres born after the reform and opening up is growing larger and larger. Young comrades generally have received higher education, are active in thinking, broad in vision, and full of energy, but they relatively lack strict political life training within the Party and tests of great storms and waves, and the issue of Party spirit is becoming increasingly prominent. This requires us to start from the root of Party spirit, to be strict, to wash away the turbid and promote the clear, to consolidate the foundation and cultivate the source, and continuously build the Party into a stronger and more powerful force.
The "Decision" proposes that it is necessary to promote all Party members and cadres to strengthen their Party consciousness, Party member consciousness, and vanguard consciousness, and to make efforts in firming up ideals and convictions, casting loyalty to the Party, deepening the sentiment of serving the people, adhering to seeking truth from facts, purifying moral character, and maintaining integrity and honesty. This concisely summarizes the requirements of Party spirit for Communists and is an important focal point that must be grasped in strengthening Party spirit cultivation. The "Decision" makes specific arrangements in five aspects: strengthening education in loyalty to the Party, persisting in using the Party's innovative theories to consolidate the soul and cast the spirit, using the Party's fine traditions and the excellent traditional Chinese culture to cultivate Party spirit, tempering Party spirit in practice, and strengthening the identification and assessment of Party spirit. To implement the arrangements of the "Decision," there are mainly the following measures. First, study and training should highlight education in loyalty to the Party, unswervingly use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to consolidate the soul and cast the spirit, deepen education in the history of the Party, the history of the People's Republic of China, the history of reform and opening up, and the history of the development of socialism, and guide Party members and cadres to always be loyal to the Party's faith, loyal to the Party's organization, and loyal to the Party's cause. Second, promote Party members and cadres to temper their Party spirit in implementing the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, completing urgent, difficult, dangerous, and heavy tasks, and responding to major storms and tests, implement the norms of political life within the Party, make good use of the weapon of criticism and self-criticism, seriously carry out democratic evaluation of Party members, and enhance unity on the basis of Party spirit principles. Third, in selecting and appointing personnel, strengthen the identification and assessment of Party spirit, do solid and deep work in investigating the political quality of cadres, pay attention to examining cadres' realm of vision and their degree of loyalty and integrity, strengthen the application of results, so that those with firm Party spirit are commended and given important positions, and those with weak Party spirit are alerted and punished. Fourth, management and supervision should closely focus on manifestations of Party spirit, promptly discover deviations in the political words and actions of Party members and cadres, make efforts to solve the problem of the "seven have-ones," seriously rectify the "five isms," and accurately identify and resolutely eliminate double-dealers.
Q: The "Decision" makes a special chapter arrangement for "forging a high-quality cadre contingent capable of shouldering the heavy task of national rejuvenation." Please share how to grasp implementation and enforcement. Among these, the "Decision" proposes "promoting cadres to establish and practice a correct view of political achievements." What further policy measures will be taken in this regard? The "Decision" also proposes "strengthening the management and supervision of cadres." Please share your considerations on the work in this regard.
A: Party cadres are the backbone force of the cause of the Party and the state, and the key to full and rigorous self-governance of the Party lies in strict governance of officials. The "Decision" proposes to strictly manage the education, training, selection, appointment, management, and supervision of cadres, build a high-quality cadre contingent that is politically sound, highly capable, excellent in work style, and strict in discipline, and makes arrangements for cadre contingent building in six aspects, clarifying the focal points of cadre work. To implement the arrangements of the "Decision," it is necessary to coordinate the work of selecting, educating, managing, and using cadres, and effectively select and strengthen leading bodies and build and strengthen the cadre contingent. The selection and appointment of personnel emphasizes orientation. The "Decision" proposes to implement the standards for good cadres in the new era, vigorously select and appoint cadres who are loyal to the Party, consistent in words and deeds, responsible and dutiful, with outstanding practical achievements, and honest and clean, resolutely not use those who fear difficulties and avoid responsibilities, are mediocre, lazy, and inactive, and have a floating work style, and resolutely eliminate those who are disloyal to the Party, comply in public but oppose in private, and abuse power for personal gain. This prominently emphasizes that a correct orientation in selecting and appointing personnel should lead the orientation in undertaking work and starting businesses. It is necessary to adhere to the principle of the Party managing cadres, combine this with the ongoing local leading body transitions, put political standards first, do solid and deep work in investigating the political quality of cadres, strictly guard the political pass, the character pass, the ability pass, the work style pass, and the integrity pass, rectify the atmosphere of selecting and appointing personnel, and select and use cadres who are loyal, clean, and responsible.
The issue of the view of political achievements is a fundamental issue. The "Decision" proposes a series of measures to promote cadres to establish and practice a correct view of political achievements. To implement the arrangements of the "Decision," it is necessary to consolidate and expand the achievements of study and education, combine this with the transitions to do a good job in education on the view of political achievements for members of newly appointed leading bodies, especially the "top leaders," improve the assessment of political achievements in promoting high-quality development, improve the working mechanism for effectively preventing and correcting deviations in the view of political achievements, and promote cadres to produce political achievements for the people and produce political achievements through practical work.
Good cadres are selected, but they are even more managed. For cadres, strict management is both an "incantation" and a "protective talisman," and is truly being responsible for cadres. The "Decision" focuses on the weak points and risk points of management and supervision and proposes many targeted measures, such as verifying and checking those whose family property and expenditures clearly exceed normal income, deepening the special rectification of the problem of "nepotism," strengthening the management and supervision of personnel recruitment work, preventing and rectifying "escape-style resignation," and strengthening the management and supervision of retired cadres. It is necessary to seriously grasp implementation and enforcement, effectively strengthen all-round management and regular supervision of cadres, run strict requirements through the entire cycle of cadre growth and the entire process of education, management, and supervision, and by clarifying direction, establishing rules, rectifying the atmosphere, and strengthening immunity, promote the formation of a clean and upright political ecology within the Party and create a good environment conducive to undertaking work and starting businesses. The "Decision" also makes arrangements for improving the mechanism for encouraging and protecting cadres' initiative and responsibility. It is necessary to adhere to cadres being responsible for the cause and organizations being responsible for cadres, seriously investigate and punish acts of false accusation and framing, promptly carry out work of clarification and restoration of reputation, implement various policies for caring for and showing concern for cadres, especially grassroots cadres, and let the willingness to take responsibility, the courage to take responsibility, and the ability to take responsibility become a prevailing trend.
Q: The "Decision" makes a special chapter arrangement for "building a rigorous organizational system that is connected from top to bottom and powerful in execution." Please share how to grasp implementation and enforcement. Among these, the "Decision" proposes "improving the mechanism for connecting Party organizations at all levels." Please share your considerations on the work in this regard and what further policy measures will be taken.
A: A rigorous organizational system is where the Party's advantages lie and where its strength lies. The "Decision," with a view to consolidating the Party's governing position and consolidating the Party's governing foundation, puts forward clear requirements for systematically advancing the building of Party organizations at all levels and in all fields. It is necessary to strengthen the concept of system, provide specific guidance by category, promote overall advancement by field, strengthen the political functions and organizational functions of Party organizations, build central and state organs into model organs that speak politics, observe discipline, are responsible, and are efficient, build local Party committees into strong organizations that resolutely obey the command of the Party Central Committee, execute effectively, manage strictly, have united leading bodies, and have a pure and upright atmosphere, build grassroots Party organizations into strong fighting fortresses that effectively realize the Party's leadership, strengthen the building of the Party member contingent, and fully give play to the vanguard and exemplary role of Party members. The "Decision" proposes to strengthen the clear orientation of focusing on the grassroots, makes arrangements for the building of grassroots Party organizations in all fields, and especially puts forward requirements for Party building work in areas with shortcomings and weaknesses, such as "hollow villages," "super-large communities," development zones (parks), and border areas, which must be grasped firmly and well with great effort. The foundation of Party building work in emerging fields is relatively weak, and the "Decision" gives prominent emphasis to this. On the basis of existing work, it is necessary to improve the Party building management system and responsibility system by category, deepen and expand the "two coverages," do a good job in the ideological and political guidance, rights protection, conflict resolution, and care and concern for new employment groups, and continuously enhance the Party's appeal, cohesion, and influence in emerging fields.
The "Decision" proposes to "improve the mechanism for connecting Party organizations at all levels," which is a major measure for making the Party's organizational system rigorous and strengthening the functions of Party organizations. The Party organizations at all levels of our Party are an organic whole. Only when they are connected from top to bottom and powerful in execution can the Party's leadership be "like the body commanding the arms, like the arms commanding the fingers." To implement the arrangements of the "Decision," it is necessary to improve the Party building work system for territorial management and vertical management, do solid work in the reporting, evaluation, and assessment of Party committee (Party group) secretaries grasping grassroots Party building work, increase guidance for Party building work, promote the formation of a working pattern of linkage from top to bottom and joint management by all parties, and effectively prevent responsibility from hanging in the air and being shifted upward or pushed downward.
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After the rain cleared and the clouds parted, the sky over Gombak District, Selangor State, Malaysia, was crystal clear and spotless (澄澈如洗, cheng che ru xi - "clear, like, wash"). The main building of the Gombak Station of the East Coast Rail Link (hereinafter referred to as "ECRL") in Malaysia was bathed in sunlight, with its huge glass curtain wall reflecting shimmering light. On November 6, the first phase of the project (the Kota Bharu to Gombak section) was completed and handed over, and it will begin operations in mid-December.
The ECRL is Malaysia's first electrified railway built using Chinese technical standards. It starts from Kota Bharu in Kelantan State in the north, runs down the east coast of the peninsula to Kuantan, then turns west and finally reaches Port Klang, with a total length of 665 kilometers. As a flagship project of high-quality China-Malaysia joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, the completion of the ECRL will break down the geographical barriers between the east and west coasts, activate the economic corridor along the route, and inject strong growth momentum into Malaysia and the entire Southeast Asian region.
Overcoming Geological Difficulties Protecting Lucid Waters and Lush Mountains
Northeast of the capital Kuala Lumpur, the Gombak Quartz Ridge in Selangor stretches for miles. It is one of the longest exposed quartz veins in the world. The main building of Gombak Station features a geometric glass curtain wall, whose design inspiration comes precisely from quartzite. Viewed from above, Bridge No. 30 of Section C1b of the ECRL project, about 2.3 kilometers long, skirts the Gombak Quartz Ridge in Selangor, crosses the Kuala Lumpur Middle Ring Road 2 and densely populated residential areas, and extends in a U-shape (see photo, taken by Cui Wenquan).
"Initially, we planned to build a tunnel to go directly through the Gombak Quartz Ridge in Selangor, which would have been more efficient in construction and lower in cost," said Lin Xiongqi, head of the Eighth Division of the ECRL project. "In view of the ecological and scientific value of the Gombak Quartz Ridge in Selangor, and out of consideration for minimizing the impact on the daily lives of local residents, we chose the bridge construction plan, which is more difficult to build and requires more complex technical expertise."
How to balance safety and efficiency in such a difficult construction became a key issue that the construction team had to overcome.
Gombak Station and Bentong Station are connected by the Genting Tunnel, which is 16.39 kilometers long and is one of the key controlling projects along the entire line. "The surrounding rock characteristics of the tunnel body vary greatly, with 'hard bones' and 'soft tofu' coexisting. Along the route there are 6 fault fracture zones and a 1.5-kilometer-long chlorite schist section, making construction extremely difficult and posing major risks such as collapse, water inrush, and damage to personnel and equipment at any time," said Deng Bo, General Manager of the ECRL project. "We introduced two open-type hard rock tunnel boring machines independently developed by China. Through advanced geological prediction, risk warning, dynamic parameter optimization, and rapid support in poor geological conditions, we achieved safe, rapid, and intelligent construction of the railway tunnel under complex geological conditions, minimizing the impact of construction activities on the mountain environment."
Through optimization of the design plan, the number of forest reserve areas involved in the route was reduced from 35 in the earlier stage to 13, with the affected area reduced by nearly 90 percent. To protect the normal migration of wildlife, more than 20 passages, bridges, and culverts have been built along the entire line for Malayan tapirs, elephants, and other wild animals to pass through safely.
Jointly Cultivating Talent Advancing Operational Preparations
In May this year, 66 trainees of the "China-Malaysia Railway Talent Training Program" — the first batch of degree-education international students from the order-based class of the Malaysia East Coast Rail Link project — completed their one-year study in Liuzhou, Guangxi, and officially joined the ECRL operation and maintenance team after graduation. "At present, 259 Malaysian trainees have received professional training in Liuzhou. These trainees will be important technical talents for Malaysia's railway industry," said Malaysian Minister of Transport Anthony Loke.
Alia Amira, 22, is one of the 66 trainees in the first graduating cohort and currently serves as an intern duty officer in the project's operations department. In the future, she will be responsible for the daily operations of the station, coordination of control center work, and passenger flow management. "It is not often that one gets the opportunity to participate in an important national-level railway infrastructure project in Malaysia," she said. "I hope to witness the development this project brings to the east coast and the entire country."
"My one year of study in China allowed me to reap great benefits (收获颇丰, shou huo po feng - "harvest, very, abundant")." Alia said. "I saw that Chinese railway stations continue to operate efficiently during peak passenger flow periods. During my time in China, I learned and mastered practical skills such as station operations management, railway signaling systems, passenger service standards, and emergency response procedures."
To date, the "China-Malaysia Railway Talent Training Program" has trained nearly 3,000 people. The project has cumulatively created more than 23,000 jobs for Malaysia and neighboring countries. Through various methods such as pre-job training, on-the-job practice, master-apprentice mentoring, special skills training, and professional technical exchanges, the project enhances the professional competence and coordination capabilities of the trainees. "The Chinese side, relying on mature railway operation experience, technical standards, and safety management systems, and in light of local laws and regulations, industry standards, and operational realities, continuously improves the operations management system suited to local characteristics; the Malaysian side, in turn, fully leverages its advantages in policy coordination, market development, resource integration, passenger services, and security functions to create a favorable development environment for railway operations," said Jiang Fan, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the East Coast Rail Link Operations Company and General Manager of CCCC ECRL Operations Company.
Deepening Connectivity Promoting Regional Development
Terengganu State is one of the most representative tourist destinations on Malaysia's east coast. "Currently, if tourists want to travel from Kuala Lumpur to the islands of Terengganu State, they must first fly to Kelantan State, then transfer to a car to go to Terengganu State, and finally take a boat to reach their destination," said Zheng Meiyan, General Manager of the Comprehensive External Liaison Department of the ECRL Project General Management Department. "Many project employees' homes are on the east coast. During holidays or the rainy season, it takes them more than 10 hours to drive home." After the railway opens, it will take only a little over two hours to travel from Kuala Lumpur to Terengganu State, and only 4 hours to reach the northern terminal station of Kota Bharu.
Zheng Meiyan comes from Johor State in southern Malaysia and has worked on the project since the ECRL began construction in 2017. "The railway provides employment opportunities and a development platform for residents along the route. Already, some enterprises have begun to cluster along the railway line," Zheng Meiyan said. "I have already made plans with my family and friends — once the railway opens, we will definitely go to Terengganu State for a visit."
"High transportation and logistics costs have long been a major factor constraining the east coast region's ability to attract investment, with large industries being particularly affected," said Darwis, Chief Executive Officer of Malaysia Rail Link. "The opening of the ECRL will provide more efficient and economical logistics solutions, significantly enhance the competitiveness and investment attractiveness of the east coast region, and achieve more balanced, inclusive, and sustainable development for the region."
At present, multiple economic industrial parks, logistics hubs, and commercial development projects are advancing in parallel along the ECRL route, including the Tok Bali Integrated Fishery Park and Industrial Park, the Pasir Mas Halal Industrial Park, and the Malaysia-China Kuantan International Logistics Park; investors' attention to and willingness to participate in manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, renewable energy, and tourism are continuously strengthening. "This 'connectivity' shortens not only physical distance, but also the development gap between regions," said Bai Yinzhan, Deputy Commander of the ECRL project and Chairman of China Harbour Engineering Company Limited.
(People's Daily, Kuala Lumpur, November 11)
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We look forward to all parties taking this session of the CIIE as an opportunity to further deepen exchanges and cooperation, transforming market opportunities into stronger production capacity, more ample employment opportunities, and more reliable livelihood security, so that trade can truly become an inclusive engine driving global development, progress, and shared prosperity.
At present, global economic uncertainty, geopolitical tensions, and climate change challenges are becoming increasingly severe. The more uncertainty we face, the more we need to strengthen dialogue and deepen cooperation.
Development is the foundation of stability and prosperity. It concerns whether workers can obtain a decent life, whether women and girls can enjoy equal development opportunities, whether society can effectively withstand the risks of shocks, and it further determines whether countries can grasp the initiative in their own development. Trade is an important force in advancing these goals. The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development clearly states that international trade is a driving force for inclusive economic growth and poverty reduction, and that it helps promote sustainable development. Opening up market access channels for more developing countries is the starting point for unleashing the effectiveness of trade development.
China's development journey, drawing worldwide attention (举世瞩目, ju shi zhu mu - "world, lift eyes"), is precisely an example of trade empowering development. By granting least developed countries that have diplomatic relations with China zero-tariff treatment on 100% of tariff lines, and by fully implementing zero-tariff measures for African countries with which it has diplomatic ties, China has brought enormous opportunities to developing economies. But market access is only the first step. Transforming opening-up opportunities into sustained development gains also depends on whether countries can enhance production capacity, strengthen local industries, raise the added value of products, and at the same time cultivate young talent and expand the scale of employment in the course of development.
To truly transform market opportunities into development outcomes, economic transformation is the key. China's experience shows that economic transformation can promote growth, enhance prosperity, drive infrastructure construction and skills training, facilitate technology transfer, broaden financing channels, and advance institutional development. These factors together support the growth of enterprises, promote economic diversification, and strengthen the capacity to withstand external shocks.
This is precisely the significance of the CIIE: it not only opens up the Chinese market, but also helps countries enhance their development capacity by promoting commercial linkages and expanding cooperative partnerships.
In measuring the effectiveness of trade, one cannot look only at the growth in scale, but must also examine whether it can create high-quality employment and improve people's well-being. Investment and industrial development driven by trade should help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote the green transformation of the economy and society. This is both an urgent need for addressing ecological and environmental challenges and a source of economic growth potential. At the same time, the opportunities created by trade should benefit women and girls more, help narrow the gender gap, and provide support for impoverished people to improve their livelihoods and escape extreme poverty.
Achieving these goals requires sound policy and institutional support. The United Nations Development Programme is committed to building a bridge connecting trade opportunities with development outcomes. By working hand in hand with governments, it supports them in improving their policy frameworks, creating a business environment conducive to domestic investment and attracting foreign direct investment, and providing support for creating jobs over the coming decades.
We look forward to all parties taking this session of the CIIE as an opportunity to further deepen exchanges and cooperation, transforming market opportunities into stronger production capacity, more ample employment opportunities, and more reliable livelihood security, so that trade can truly become an inclusive engine driving global development, progress, and shared prosperity.
(The author is the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme)
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 11) (Reporter Dong Xue) Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, held talks in Beijing on the 11th with Bruno Rodríguez, special envoy of the Party and government of Cuba, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Wang Yi asked Rodríguez to convey President Xi Jinping's cordial greetings to Comrade Raúl and President Díaz-Canel. Wang Yi stated that China will firmly support Cuba in safeguarding its national sovereignty and legitimate rights and interests, and in opposing sanctions, blockades, and external interference, and expressed China's willingness to continuously consolidate and develop the friendly relations between China and Cuba together with the Cuban side.
Rodríguez conveyed the sincere greetings of General of the Army Raúl and President Díaz-Canel to President Xi Jinping, stating that China has always been a good partner of Cuba in building socialism, and that the Cuban side is willing to work with the Chinese side to jointly explore a path for the development of bilateral relations that benefits the peoples of both countries.
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"China has established 'openness, innovation, and cooperation' as its three priority areas, sending a positive signal of firmly safeguarding openness and cooperation and deepening regional economic integration, which helps enhance the resilience of the regional economy," said Rupa Chanda, Director of the Trade, Investment and Innovation Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, in a recent exclusive interview with our reporter.
Building a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific is the common vision of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies in advancing regional economic integration. In May, at the second Senior Officials' Meeting of APEC 2026 held in Shanghai, China proposed upholding the main channel status of the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific, coordinating different free trade pathways, conducting cooperation in a flexible and pragmatic manner, and enhancing the capacity of all parties to participate in high-standard regional economic and trade arrangements. The APEC Ministers Responsible for Trade Meeting adopted the Suzhou Statement, in which all parties reaffirmed their commitment to advancing regional economic integration and the construction of the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific, releasing a clear signal of promoting win-win results through cooperation (以合作促共赢, yi he zuo cu gong ying - "use, cooperation, promote, win-win") and injecting new growth momentum into the Asia-Pacific economy. "For the Asia-Pacific region, regional economic integration is of vital importance, as it can bring economies of scale, resilience, and more stable expectations to all economies," Chanda said. She noted that Shenzhen, as a highland of scientific and technological innovation, is highly aligned with APEC's goals of advancing digital trade, green economy cooperation, and deepening regional economic integration.
In Chanda's view, connectivity is an important foundation for the common prosperity of the Asia-Pacific region. Connectivity in the new era means not only building infrastructure such as roads, ports, and railways, but also concerns whether trade information such as data, permits, and bills of lading can flow across borders safely, efficiently, and seamlessly. Chanda said that China is an active participant in the Framework Agreement on Facilitation of Cross-border Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific. "With the advancement of the process of formulating the upgraded blueprint, the Asia-Pacific region is expected to achieve a higher level of connectivity in areas such as infrastructure, logistics, digital connectivity, and the alignment of rules and institutions."
In July, APEC Digital Week was held in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. During the event, the APEC Ministers Meeting on Digital and Artificial Intelligence adopted the Chengdu Statement, unanimously agreeing to jointly promote the empowerment of the Asia-Pacific community through digital and artificial intelligence technologies, establishing an action framework for APEC to deepen cooperation in the digital and artificial intelligence fields and empower regional innovative development in the coming period. "The digital economy and artificial intelligence are becoming important drivers of the next phase of economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region," Chanda said.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 曹师韵
"The theme of 'Building an Asia-Pacific Community for Shared Development' hits the nail on the head (切中肯綮, qie zhong ken qing - "cut, hit; certain, accurate"), as it both follows the general trend of the times (顺应时代大势, shun ying shi dai da shi - "follow, respond; era, great trend") and directly confronts the region's practical difficulties." Humfrey Arnaldo Russel, director of the ASEAN-China Research Center at the University of Indonesia, said in a recent exclusive interview with a People's Daily reporter that China, as the host of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, is playing a constructive role in promoting cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region.
In Russel's view, China's proposal to make "openness, innovation, and cooperation" the three priority areas of APEC cooperation is highly targeted at practical realities. "The Asia-Pacific region needs more mutual trust and cooperation," Russel said. Openness helps prevent the Asia-Pacific region from falling into bloc confrontation, innovation is an important support for adapting to the development of digital technology, artificial intelligence, and green industries, and cooperation is the key to addressing common challenges.
In June, Russel traveled to Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, to attend the "Forum of Experts on China Studies from APEC Economies." The forum's meticulous organization and pragmatic agenda left a deep impression on him. Russel said that China has promoted in-depth consultations among APEC members on regional economic integration and the prospects for Asia-Pacific cooperation, playing an important role in building consensus for cooperation (凝聚合作共识, ning ju he zuo gong shi - "condense, gather; cooperation, consensus") and pooling development synergy.
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and digital technology, innovation cooperation is becoming a new growth point for Asia-Pacific cooperation. Russel believes that China's continued promotion of high-quality development, scientific and technological innovation, and high-standard opening up will bring new development opportunities to the Asia-Pacific region. China has deep accumulations in fields such as artificial intelligence, intelligent manufacturing, new energy vehicles, and the digital economy, and Indonesia's deepening of cooperation with China will help promote its own industrial upgrading and digital transformation.
"The key to APEC cooperation lies in whether it can effectively improve people's well-being," Russel said. When measuring the effectiveness of cooperation, one should not only look at trade and investment growth, but also at the tangible results achieved in creating employment, upgrading skills, promoting the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, and ensuring food and energy security. China's rich practices in poverty reduction, the digital economy, industrial upgrading, green energy, and the modernization of public services provide useful reference for Indonesia. In recent years, cooperation between Indonesia and China in education and people-to-people exchanges has continued to deepen, enhancing mutual understanding between the peoples of the two countries.
"Shenzhen, as the venue for the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, holds special significance — this city is precisely a microcosm of China's reform and opening up and innovative development," Russel said. He expressed the hope that the meeting will produce a more pragmatic and actionable cooperation roadmap and achieve more results in areas such as regional economic integration, digital governance, green trade, supply chain resilience, SME development, and educational cooperation.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 曹文轩 张博岚
The 7th "Forum on Ocean Cooperation and Governance" was recently held in Sanya, Hainan. More than 400 representatives from over 30 countries and regions around the world attended the forum, engaging in conducting in-depth research and discussion (深入研讨, shen ru yan tao - "deep, enter, research, discuss") and extensive exchanges on topics such as "Changing Circumstances and Reconstruction: Global Ocean Governance in a Turbulent Era," "Rule of Law Leading Maritime Governance: Coordination and Rule-Building for Maritime Safety in the South China Sea," and "The Agreement on Marine Biodiversity: From Normative Consensus to Implementation Practice." The forum also released the "Global Maritime Security Report 2025-2026" and the outcomes of practical maritime cooperation projects.
In his keynote speech, former Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo stated that new technologies such as artificial intelligence will help humanity deepen its understanding of the ocean and bring more opportunities for cooperation. He expressed the view that all parties to the South China Sea issue should enhance friendship and mutual trust through dialogue and exchange, seek common solutions, and strengthen cooperation in areas such as the full industrial chain of fisheries, tourism, earthquake early warning, climate change, maritime safety, and maritime search and rescue.
Indonesian Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries Sakti Wahyu Trenggono stated that in the face of common challenges such as climate change, marine pollution, biodiversity loss, and the decline of fishery resources, all countries should strengthen international cooperation. Cooperation between ASEAN and China should be strengthened in areas such as sustainable fisheries, marine conservation, maritime safety, marine science, and the blue economy, supporting the effective implementation of the "Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction" (hereinafter referred to as the "Agreement on Marine Biological Diversity"), and upholding principles such as international rule of law, science-based decision-making, fair sharing of benefits from marine resources, and capacity building.
Committed to building a multilateral cooperation platform and helping improve global ocean governance, China has applied to host the secretariat of the Agreement on Marine Biological Diversity in Xiamen. Maldivian Minister of Fisheries, Agriculture and Marine Resources Ahmed Shiyam stated that the ocean is vital to the food security, economic development, and well-being of small island developing states. The Agreement on Marine Biological Diversity provides an important opportunity to strengthen cooperation beyond areas of national jurisdiction. He supports China's application to host the secretariat of the Agreement on Marine Biological Diversity in Xiamen, appreciates China's measures to implement the Agreement, and looks forward to translating shared commitments into collective action.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 11) Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, spoke by phone with U.S. Secretary of State Rubio on the 11th. The two sides exchanged in-depth views on China-U.S. relations and interactions between the two heads of state, and the phone call was positive and constructive.
Wang Yi stated that President Xi Jinping's visit to the United States in September was smooth and successful, and that the two heads of state agreed to enrich the connotation of the new positioning of China-U.S. relations, providing clearer strategic guidance for exploring the right way for China and the United States to get along. The stable momentum of China-U.S. relations is difficult to achieve and maintain (来之不易, lai zhi bu yi - "come, from, not, easy"), and is a rational choice made by the two major countries based on their respective and common interests. China's policy toward the United States maintains stability and continuity, and China is willing to strengthen communication and cooperation with the United States, properly handle differences and sensitive issues, mutually support the successful hosting of the 2026 APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting and the G20 Leaders' Summit, and promote the implementation and tangible results of a constructive and strategically stable China-U.S. relationship.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 11) Peng Qinghua, Vice Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, met in Beijing on the 11th with a delegation of the "Georgian Dream – Democratic Georgia" party led by Samkharadze, a member of the party's Political Committee and Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs. The two sides exchanged views on deepening bilateral and inter-party relations and strengthening exchanges between legislative bodies.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Toronto, November 10) (Reporter Lin Wei) The Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China, on behalf of the central government, successfully issued 4 billion yuan of green sovereign bonds in Canada on the 9th. Of these, 2 billion yuan were 3-year bonds with an issue rate of 1.4%, and 2 billion yuan were 5-year bonds with an issue rate of 1.5%.
This issuance of RMB green sovereign bonds was warmly welcomed by the market, with international investors subscribing enthusiastically. The total subscription amount reached 54.04 billion yuan, 13.5 times the issuance amount.
This issuance marks the first time the Ministry of Finance has issued RMB green sovereign bonds in Canada. It is an important measure in implementing the second China-Canada Economic and Financial Strategic Dialogue and is of great significance for deepening exchanges and cooperation between China and Canada in the fields of green development and economic and financial affairs.
The investors in this issuance of RMB green sovereign bonds were diverse in type and broad in geographic distribution. Investors from the Asia-Pacific region accounted for 77%, while investors from outside the Asia-Pacific region accounted for a combined 23% (the Americas 15%, Europe 8%); sovereign and supranational, banking, fund and asset management and insurance, and dealer-type investors accounted for 32%, 45%, 22%, and 1% respectively; green and sustainable investors accounted for 41%. The bonds issued this time will be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 11) On November 11, Liu Haixing, Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, met separately in Beijing with the special envoy of the Cuban Party and government, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez, and with the Speaker of the Colombian House of Representatives, Jaime Raúl Salamanca, exchanging views on implementing the important consensus of the leaders of both sides, strengthening inter-party exchanges and cooperation, and promoting the development of state-to-state relations.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 11) Chen Wenqing, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, chaired a special meeting on the 11th, emphasizing the need to thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and directives on food safety work, always adhere to the people-centered development philosophy, deeply advance the special campaign to lawfully and strictly investigate and punish crimes and violations endangering food safety, and use the rule of law to safeguard the people's lives, health, and physical well-being.
Chen Wenqing pointed out that since the special campaign was launched, all localities and relevant departments have conscientiously implemented the requirements of the "Opinions of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission on Lawfully and Strictly Investigating and Punishing Crimes and Violations Endangering Food Safety," carefully organized and implemented (精心组织, jing xin zu zhi - "carefully, organize") and steadily advanced the work, lawfully and strictly investigating and punishing a number of major and important cases, achieving positive results at the current stage.
Chen Wenqing emphasized that it is necessary to further focus on the target requirements, refine work tasks, and consolidate responsibilities of all parties to ensure that the special campaign achieves tangible and perceptible practical results. It is necessary to intensify efforts to screen and identify leads, smooth channels for public reporting, deeply investigate and handle case leads across the entire chain, and improve the mechanism for transferring leads between political and legal organs and relevant departments. It is necessary to focus on tackling key cases, list them for supervision and handling, classify and dispose of them, implement targeted measures, and publish typical cases to strengthen guidance for similar cases. It is necessary to always maintain a high-pressure and severe-strike posture, and carry the requirement of lawfulness and strictness through all stages of criminal proceedings, including investigation, arrest, prosecution, trial, and execution of penalties. It is necessary to revise and improve laws and regulations related to food safety, update the list of illegally added substances, improve the two-way linkage mechanism between administrative and criminal enforcement, establish a joint consultation mechanism for major cases and incidents, and promote joint efforts by all parties to safeguard the people's "safety on the tip of the tongue."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李凯旋
At Anjing Station in Chengdu, Sichuan, many elderly travelers are queuing to board the train. The "Panda Special Train" tourist train departs from here.
By the end of last year, China's population aged 60 and above reached 320 million, and it is projected that by 2035 this group will exceed 400 million, indicating enormous development potential in the elderly care service industry.
Since its launch in 2021, the "Panda Special Train" has served more than 50,000 passengers cumulatively, with travelers aged 60 and above accounting for about 70 percent. Why do elderly people choose this train? Is the accommodation comfortable and the experience enjoyable? A reporter boarded the train to find out.
Facility design follows the principle of comfort and convenience
Accompanied by the warm greetings of the crew of the "Panda Special Train · Shifang" tourist train, more than 250 passengers boarded the train departing from Chengdu to Shaanxi, Henan, and Shanxi, beginning an 11-day journey.
The "Panda Special Train" is a tourist train brand launched by China Railway Chengdu Group Co., Ltd., with two positioning categories: premium and comfort. The moderately priced Shifang is a comfort-class train, composed of sleeper cars, dining cars, and multi-functional entertainment cars that have undergone age-friendly renovation. Nanniwan in Shaanxi, Yuntai Mountain in Henan, the Qiao Family Compound in Shanxi... the itinerary links up about 20 scenic spots across the three provinces.
After finding his room and stowing his luggage, Liu Quanan, a 62-year-old passenger, tried out the facilities in the car.
"There's a call button, a reading light was added by the bedside, and the mattress is thicker too." The standard four-person room Liu Quanan chose has a spatial layout similar to a soft sleeper compartment on an ordinary train, with many additional age-friendly designs. For example, the shower room has a foldable changing stool and non-slip flooring, the restroom has added grab bars, and a medical refrigerator can store insulin and other medications...
Liu Fapeng, one of the designers of the "Panda Special Train" and director of the Project Management Department of the Passenger Car Business Division at CRRC Chengdu Locomotive & Rolling Stock Co., Ltd., introduced that since its launch, many trains have undergone three to four major renovation and upgrade cycles.
"We collected and adopted more than 300 pieces of feedback," Liu Fapeng said. "For example, wider luggage compartments, more comfortable berths, and denser grab bars. We developed multiple plans, had the design team test them in actual vehicles, and invited elderly passengers to try them on site."
Safety, rigor, and standardization were the principles Liu Fapeng previously followed when designing vehicles. When designing the "Panda Special Train," he and his colleagues also placed principles such as comfort and ease of use for the elderly in an important position. "A tourist train is not just a means of transportation; it is also a service space."
Building trust through meticulous and transparent service
With melodious music playing in the multi-functional entertainment car, the reporter met 61-year-old passenger Zhang Shouhui, who was dancing with her close friends.
"The train turning into a 'hotel' is a novel experience," Zhang Shouhui said. After seeing it on social media, she was very interested and signed up.
But Zhang Shouhui also had some concerns: Can one rest adequately sleeping on the train? What if one feels unwell during the sightseeing? Many travelers shared the same feeling: they look forward to traveling, but once actually on the journey, unexpected situations make it hard to feel at ease.
Age-friendly tourism is not just about adding a few more grab bars to the train. Teng Song is the chief tour leader of the Shifang, from the operator Sichuan Siji Leyou International Travel Service. He calls himself the "chief steward" for the more than 200 elderly travelers on board, specifically resolving the concerns in everyone's minds.
On and off the train, there are many "stewards." Besides Teng Song, the railway crew is responsible for operational safety and providing catering and other services; "stewards" from Sichuan Chengdu Railway International Business & Tourism Group Co., Ltd. help travelers handle personalized requests; and a medical team that accompanies the entire journey addresses health issues.
Team doctor Zhou Fengxian said: "There was once a traveler who suddenly had difficulty breathing on the train, and we transferred him to a hospital near the nearest station. Now before every trip, the train chief and the tour leader confirm in advance that the route for medical transfer is clear."
Every day, when travelers finish their sightseeing and turn off the lights to sleep, the brief work meeting organized by Teng Song is just beginning.
"A scenic spot was closed due to temporary renovation, so we'll use the backup plan as a substitute, and the company will cover the price difference" "Review tomorrow's scenic area ticket discount policy again; we can't be vague when travelers ask"... Teng Song made arrangements one by one, and the tour leaders reported travelers' requests one by one; by the time the meeting ended, it was already late at night. "Details are the key to doing tourism services well," Teng Song said.
Yang Hongqi, a 73-year-old traveler, has visited many famous scenic spots and mountains (名山大川, ming shan da chuan - "famous mountains, big rivers") and has encountered unpleasant experiences on trips: promised itineraries not delivered, forced shopping stops added... On this trip, Yang Hongqi paid special attention to whether the itinerary design and pricing were transparent: ticket discounts were implemented as agreed, paid items such as sightseeing buses were announced in advance, and trust accumulated bit by bit.
Exploring a sustainable operation model
After the trip ended, a "review meeting" was soon held.
"The tour bus took the wrong road, and the stop was far from the scenic area entrance" "The tour guide walked ahead on his own without considering the elderly travelers' physical condition"... Zhou Zihao, head of the special train team at Sichuan Chengdu Railway International Business & Tourism Group Co., Ltd., which is responsible for building and operating the "Panda Special Train," reviewed the comments while summarizing. In response to travelers' opinions on tour guide quality, the team proposed improvement measures after discussion.
When the "Panda Special Train" first launched, it was operated by the railway department. Soon after, to better adapt to the rapidly changing tourism market, a tripartite cooperation model of "railway bureau group + investment entity + operating entity" took shape through exploration. The investment entity focuses on asset preservation and appreciation and quality improvement; the operating entity, introduced through market-based selection, is responsible for passenger sourcing, product design, and market promotion; and the railway department handles train operation safety, route support, and basic crew services.
To date, the "Panda Special Train" has operated more than 190 trips cumulatively, generating product revenue of 370 million yuan. Product service standards, tour leader manuals, and other service systems and standards have been issued, a tourist train crew team has been established, standardized service procedures are gradually taking shape, and the "Panda Special Train" has gradually become a tourist train brand with a well-developed product matrix, carrying the expectations of more travelers—
"The accommodation on the train isn't comfortable enough; vibration and noise reduction upgrades should continue." "Registration is mainly through online channels, and many elderly people aren't very good at using them." "There are relatively few routes to the southeast coastal region; we want to take the 'Panda Special Train' to see the sea."...
Sustainable operation has also become a challenge: the cost input for the train is relatively high, and it is not easy to ensure the safety of elderly travelers during sightseeing and continuously improve service quality while keeping prices affordable.
"The key to sustained operation lies in passenger flow growth," said Qin Wanru, deputy director of the Tourism Development Department at Sichuan Chengdu Railway International Business & Tourism Group Co., Ltd. "The 'Panda Special Train' follows a selling in large quantities with small profit margins (薄利多销, bo li duo xiao - "thin, profit; much, sell") operation model. In the future, we will strive to build a more complete product line to provide travelers with diversified tourism products; make good use of the space on the train to offer more room types to meet some travelers' demands for quality."
Take Liu Quanan as an example: he chose the more cost-effective standard four-person room type, with an 11-day itinerary costing more than 4,000 yuan. The reporter found that the train also has more spacious premium four-person and other room types costing around 6,000 yuan, which many travelers also choose.
"The most important thing is to maintain a good reputation and increase the train's influence and repurchase rate. We also need to develop more diverse tourist routes and continue to acquire customers through launching new products," Qin Wanru said.
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How to choose a tourist train product
In recent years, China's railway network has continued to improve, and tourist passenger flow has grown relatively quickly. In the first three quarters of this year, the national railway operated 2,860 tourist trains cumulatively, a year-on-year increase of 25.5 percent, including 1,613 special tourist trains and 1,247 tourist dedicated lines.
All tourist train products can be purchased on the railway 12306 platform. In the "Railway Tourism" section, special tourist train products are divided into three categories: premium, comfort, and inclusive. Tourist dedicated line products are purchased in the same way as ordinary trains.
Special tourist trains are custom-operated as entire trains according to the needs of tour group itineraries, and are package tour products providing food, accommodation, transportation, sightseeing, shopping, entertainment, and learning services. Their positioning is that of a "mobile residence complex," using dedicated tourist train sets whose hardware has all undergone age-friendly, tourism-oriented, and themed renovation. The "Panda Special Train," "Star of the Yangtze River Delta," and "Starlight · Yan-Zhao" are all of this type.
Tourist dedicated lines operate on fixed tourist routes, with relatively fixed train operating sections, stops, service patterns, and train composition, and are tourism products with tickets as the main sales form. Their positioning is that of "special sightseeing transportation vehicles," with only themed exterior painting and upgraded interior ambiance.
The development of tourist trains in China is still in its early stage, with all regions actively exploring and experimenting. A relevant official from the Passenger Transport Center of China State Railway Group said that the railway department will continue to advance the tourism-oriented renovation of trains, fully implement age-friendly and barrier-free renovations, encourage social capital to participate in train body upgrades, and strive to complete the construction target of 160 dedicated tourist train sets by 2030 on schedule.
(Compiled and edited by People's Daily reporter Li Xinping)
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, November 11) The 24th China International Talent Exchange Conference opened in Shanghai on November 11. State Councilor Shen Yiqin attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech.
Shen Yiqin stressed that President Xi Jinping has profoundly pointed out that "we must implement a more active, more open, and more effective talent policy" and "warmly welcome foreign experts and outstanding talents to participate in China's modernization drive in various ways." At present, China's economic development continues to improve, innovation vitality continues to surge, and the overall social situation remains stable over the long term, possessing boundless vitality and surging dynamism suitable for the development of all kinds of talent. China's 15th Five-Year Plan extends an invitation for cooperation to the world, and the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China provides a strong guarantee for advancing Chinese modernization. It is hoped that outstanding talents from around the world will gather in China in the new era, achieving great ambitions (大展宏图, da zhan hong tu - "greatly, expand, grand, blueprint") on the stage of Chinese modernization, demonstrating great skill or talent (大显身手, da xian shen shou - "greatly, show, body, hand") in exploring the frontiers of science and technology, and making a significant contribution (大有作为, da you zuo wei - "greatly, have, do, act") in the practice of building a community with a shared future for mankind, jointly creating a better future and jointly enhancing the well-being of humanity.
Shen Yiqin stated that China will continue to improve the support and guarantee mechanisms for introducing overseas talent, foster a favorable atmosphere of respecting, caring for, and supporting foreign talents in innovation and entrepreneurship, and enable all kinds of talents who are willing to develop in China to find their proper place (各得其所, ge de qi suo - "each, get, its, place") and fully display their strengths.
With the theme of "Gathering Talents from Around the World, Seeking Cooperation and Win-Win Outcomes," the conference saw more than 3,100 foreign experts from over 120 countries and regions attend the opening ceremony.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吴 勇
At present, the harvest of nearly 20 million mu of corn in Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia, is basically complete. This year, the locality promoted corn yield improvement on 13.54 million mu, with approximately 4.0699 million mu of fields reaching the "ton-grain field" level of 1,000 kilograms per mu.
In Halamancun Village, Fengtian Town, Horqin District, Tongliao City, harvested corn is being stored in warehouses. Lin Rong, chairman of the Bofeng Agricultural Professional Cooperative, grabbed a handful of plump corn kernels, his face full of smiles.
In 2019, Lin Rong, who had been doing business outside, chose to return to the village to grow corn. "Although yields increased year by year in the first three years, the costs of contracted land and planting inputs were also large." Recalling the experience of "working hard all year and still not breaking even," Lin Rong said with emotion, "At the time, I didn't know where the room for increasing production and income was."
At the end of 2021, Lin Rong came into contact with the high-yield technology of dense planting with precise regulation promoted by the team of Li Shaokun, a researcher at the Institute of Crop Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and he prepared to try it according to the methods guided by the experts. Unexpectedly, he encountered a problem before sowing even began.
That winter saw heavy snowfall, and after the spring thaw the soil was relatively wet. The land was deep-loosened, deep-plowed, and harrowed three times. Wang Keru, a team member, looked at it and still felt the soil clods were too large and did not meet the conditions required for dense planting, suggesting continuing land preparation. But tilling two more times would cost an extra 30 yuan per mu.
"At the time I thought, spending an extra 30 yuan is still better than poor seedling emergence and having to replant and replenish water." Lin Rong again brought in agricultural machinery to plow the land. That year, the seedling emergence rate on the plots he managed exceeded 95%, and at the autumn harvest the yield was about 1,035 kilograms per mu.
"Dense planting is not just about sowing a few more seeds at planting time. After the number of plants increases, water and fertilizer supply, plant lodging resistance, and pest and disease control all need to be adjusted accordingly." Yin Fengzhen, chief of the Crop Cultivation Section of the Tongliao Municipal Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau, said that the locality has summarized seed selection, land preparation, seed coating, sowing, chemical control, pest control, water and fertilizer, and harvesting as the "eight points of precision," making it convenient for growers to learn and apply, and more importantly, enabling these links to be connected in the field. "Once the farmland foundation is solid and the technology is in place, it still depends on socialized services to implement the technology on plot after plot of land."
Lin Rong's approach is to schedule the farming calendar more finely. During the more than 100 days of corn growth, Yao Zhenxing, deputy director of the Agricultural Technology Extension Center of Horqin District, often goes to the fields to check seedling conditions, while Lin Rong organizes agricultural machinery and personnel to follow up. "The farming season waits for no one; if you miss the opportunity, you have to wait until next year to start over."
This summer, Lin Rong increased the use of shallow-buried drip irrigation according to the plots and seedling conditions, allowing water and soluble fertilizer to be delivered to the corn roots through drip irrigation; during the critical period of chemical regulation to prevent lodging, drones were operated to spray horizontally and vertically over the same plot respectively, minimizing uneven spraying caused by wind; at harvest, direct grain harvesting was adopted to reduce the losses from transporting corn ears home, stacking them, and then threshing them...
Taken individually, none of these techniques in this set is new; the difficulty lies in preparing the land to standard, keeping water and fertilizer supply adequate, ensuring plant protection is timely, and minimizing losses at harvest. Yu Jinghui, chief of the Grain and Oil Crop Technology Section of the Tongliao Municipal Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Development Center, spoke of this set of techniques: "This is a series of interconnected links (一环套一环, yi huan tao yi huan - "one ring, surround, one ring"), tightly connected."
This year, the area of corn Lin Rong planted expanded to about 6,000 mu, plus more than 20,000 mu of land for which he provides trusteeship services to farmers. "The larger the area, the less it can rely on one person watching over it. The cooperative uniformly arranges agricultural machinery, water and fertilizer, and plant protection operations, connecting the critical farming periods of scattered plots so that more farmers can use the same set of refined management methods."
From the two extra tillings at the beginning to the full-process management of more than 10,000 mu today, Lin Rong has gained a more practical understanding of increasing production: dense planting gives corn the possibility of higher yields, and precise regulation allows that "possibility" to be realized on every mu of land as much as possible.
Under the tight interconnection of scientific planting techniques, this year, the highest average yields of conventional plots in Tongliao City's hundred-mu fields, thousand-mu squares, and ten-thousand-mu tracts reached 1,156.63 kilograms, 1,295.79 kilograms, and 1,277.70 kilograms per mu, respectively.
"With the high-yield precise regulation technology for dense-planted corn as the key, and with good farmland, good seeds, good machinery, good methods, and disaster prevention and mitigation measures coordinated and matched, we have explored a path for steadily enhancing corn production capacity." Ma Junling, director of the Tongliao Municipal Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau, said.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 11) (Reporter Liu Zhiqiang) Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics show: In October, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was flat month on month; it rose 0.7 percent year on year, with the increase narrowing by 0.2 percentage points from the previous month; the core CPI, excluding food and energy prices, rose 0.8 percent year on year, with the increase narrowing by 0.2 percentage points from the previous month. The Producer Price Index (PPI) for industrial products rose 0.7 percent month on month, with the increase narrowing by 0.5 percentage points from the previous month; it rose 5.7 percent year on year, with the increase expanding by 0.7 percentage points from the previous month.
On a year-on-year basis, gasoline prices rose 22.4 percent, with the increase expanding by 5.8 percentage points from the previous month, contributing approximately 0.63 percentage points to the year-on-year rise in the CPI, and driving the increase in energy prices to expand from 7.3 percent in the previous month to 9.9 percent in the current month.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 徐 隽 倪 弋
"A modernized country must be a country under the rule of law." China, advancing on the road to national rejuvenation, is writing a new chapter on the track of the rule of law.
The "Decision" of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee proposed "promoting the organic unity of law-based governance and rule-based governance of the Party" and "enhancing the ability to advance high-quality development, serve the people, prevent and defuse risks, and carry out work using rule-of-law thinking and rule-of-law methods"...
In November 2020, the Party's history saw the first-ever Central Conference on Comprehensive Law-Based Governance, which established Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law as the guiding thought for comprehensive law-based governance.
In November 2025, the Party Central Committee again convened the Central Conference on Comprehensive Law-Based Governance. General Secretary Xi Jinping made important instructions on the work of comprehensive law-based governance, emphasizing that "all departments and all fields must strictly act in accordance with the law and work together to open up a new situation in the construction of a rule-of-law China."
Standing at the important juncture of the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, looking back on the road traveled, the magnificent picture of a rule-of-law China is slowly unfolding. Looking ahead, the construction of a higher-level rule-of-law China is making steady progress at a high speed (蹄疾步稳, ti ji bu wen - "hoof, fast; step, steady") and striding forward.
"The path of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics is growing ever broader"
Governing in accordance with the law, strengthening the foundation to prosper the country (固本兴邦, gu ben xing bang - "solidify, root; prosper, nation").
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the Party Central Committee has incorporated comprehensive law-based governance into the Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy and vigorously advanced it. The overall framework for comprehensive law-based governance has basically taken shape, the system of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics has been continuously improved, and the path of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics is growing ever broader."
Sound legislation, building a solid foundation for good laws and good governance.
On November 6, 2026, the 25th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th NPC Standing Committee voted to pass the Public Interest Litigation Law of the People's Republic of China for Procuratorial Organs. This is an original achievement in the field of public interest protection in practicing Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, contributing Chinese wisdom to solving a worldwide challenge.
As of early November, China has 306 laws currently in effect, more than 600 administrative regulations and supervisory regulations, and more than 15,000 local regulations. The system of socialist laws with Chinese characteristics, with the Constitution at its core, is becoming increasingly complete, providing strong legal support for fostering a sound social situation that is both full of vitality and vigor (生机勃勃, sheng ji bo bo - "life, machine; abundant, abundant") and orderly and well-organized (井然有序, jing ran you xu - "well, orderly; in, order").
Strict law enforcement, with the exercise of power being standardized and efficient.
"The Regulations on Administrative Law Enforcement Supervision and the newly revised Implementing Regulations of the Administrative Reconsideration Law have been promulgated and implemented one after another, the regulation of administrative law enforcement involving enterprises has entered a normalized stage, and nationwide more than 110,000 case leads involving prominent problems in administrative law enforcement involving enterprises have been investigated and corrected, recovering losses of 31.1 billion yuan for enterprises and sorting out and improving more than 4,400 discretionary benchmarks." Li Mingzheng, Vice Minister of Justice, introduced that mechanisms such as rapid response to enterprise law enforcement demands and dynamic monitoring of confiscated income have been established and improved, and the institutional mechanisms for supervising law-based administration have been further strengthened.
Achieving "efficient completion of one matter" in more fields and on a larger scale, and coordinating the advancement of the "comprehensive inspection in one go" reform... The effective market and the proactive government are organically combined, and the law-based business environment, like a continuous source of nourishment or inspiration (源头活水, yuan tou huo shui - "source, head; living, water"), nourishes economic and social development.
Impartial justice, safeguarding social fairness and justice.
On October 16 this year, the highly anticipated first-instance verdict in the lead poisoning case at a kindergarten in Tianshui, Gansu, was announced. The Lanzhou Intermediate People's Court pronounced sentences on Li Huifang, Zhu Jinglin, and others for the crime of producing and selling toxic and harmful food.
From efficiently adjudicating cases involving consumer rights, housing and property management, education and medical care, to improving adjudication rules for labor dispute cases in new forms of employment, to implementing "priority filing, priority adjudication, and priority enforcement" for cases involving people's livelihoods... judicial organs are continuously strengthening judicial protection for people's livelihoods, enabling the people to truly feel that fairness and justice are right by their side.
Law-abiding by all the people, cultivating awareness of abiding by rules and laws.
Not long ago, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council forwarded the "Ninth Five-Year Plan for Carrying out Publicity and Education on the Rule of Law (2026–2030) of the Central Propaganda Department and the Ministry of Justice." On November 1 this year, the Law on Publicity and Education on the Rule of Law has been in effect for one full year.
From "deputy principals for the rule of law" on campuses to "legal literacy ambassadors" in streets, villages, and communities, from solemn oath-taking on National Constitution Day to "rule-of-law publicity groups" going door to door in villages, a rule-of-law publicity and education system covering all the people and running through the entire life course is gradually taking shape, making the rule of law a way of thinking and a behavioral habit for all the people.
The rule of law is an important guarantee for Chinese modernization. Studying, thinking about, practicing, and comprehending Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, consolidating the ideological foundation for the construction of a rule-of-law China, comprehensive law-based governance in the new era has achieved historic accomplishments, and confidence in building a rule-of-law China has become even more steadfast.
"Focusing on building a more complete system of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics and building a higher-level socialist country under the rule of law"
Comprehensive law-based governance, once the key link is grasped, everything falls into place.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, "Focus on building a more complete system of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics and building a higher-level socialist country under the rule of law."
— Promoting the legal norms system to become increasingly complete and perfect (日臻完备, ri zhen wan bei - "day, gradually, reach; complete, perfect").
Good laws and good governance begin with keen insight into and precise response to the propositions of the times.
Many users have encountered similar troubles: AI face-swapping technology being abused and infringing on portrait rights, deepfake videos being difficult to distinguish from real ones, algorithm recommendations leading to information cocoons, and unclear copyright ownership of AI-generated content...
Only by weaving a tight legal net for AI governance can technology develop healthily and benefit the people. On August 15, 2023, the Interim Measures for the Administration of Generative AI Services, jointly formulated by seven departments including the Cyberspace Administration of China, came into effect. This is the world's first dedicated legislation on generative AI.
Going beyond the "precise targeting" of departmental rules, at the level of national legislation, the Cybersecurity Law, the Data Security Law, the Personal Information Protection Law, and others have been enacted. Through systematic legislation, the governance of the online ecosystem has been strengthened, drawing red lines and bottom lines for technology to move upward, toward good, and develop healthily.
Compiling the Civil Code and the Ecological Environment Code, formulating the Law on Promoting the Private Economy, amending the Law on Scientific and Technological Progress, the Lawyers Law, the Foreign Trade Law, and the Regulations on International Maritime Transport... Strengthening legislation in key fields, emerging fields, and foreign-related fields provides strong legal guarantees for the implementation of major national strategies.
Amending the Food Safety Law, formulating the Law on the Construction of a Barrier-Free Environment, the Social Assistance Law, the Medical Security Law, and the Regulations on Promoting Nationwide Reading... Focusing on hot issues concerning people's livelihoods, promptly responding to social concerns, and effectively enhancing the people's sense of gain from the rule of law.
Formulating the Anti-Food Waste Law and the Black Soil Protection Law, issuing the Regulations on Social Insurance Administration and the Provisions on the Supply and Replenishment of International Cruise Ships at Ports of the People's Republic of China... "Small, fast, and agile" legislation demonstrates the wisdom and efficiency of precise governance, striving to ensure that laws can stand, work, and truly be effective.
"Through full research and demonstration, widely soliciting legislative project proposals from all parties, and scientifically arranging legislative projects, we will provide strong legal support for the smooth implementation of the outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan." Huang Wei, Deputy Director of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee, stated.
— Promoting the rule-of-law implementation system to become more efficient.
The vitality of law lies in its implementation, and the authority of law also lies in its implementation.
The anti-fraud center of a public security organ in a certain place was brightly lit. On the screen, abnormal transactions from a suspicious account triggered an early warning model. "Freeze the payment immediately!" The order was issued, and a race against criminals unfolded racing against the clock (争分夺秒, zheng fen duo miao - "struggle, minute; seize, second").
Since the implementation of the Anti-Telecom and Online Fraud Law, such scenes have become the norm across the country. In 2025, public security organs, together with relevant departments, intercepted 3.6 billion fraudulent calls and 3.3 billion fraudulent text messages, and urgently froze 217.07 billion yuan of funds involved in fraud. Behind these strings of numbers is the reassurance and warmth of millions of families being spared property losses, and the firm determination of law enforcement agencies to protect the people's "money bags."
The efficiency of the rule-of-law implementation system is also reflected in the process of law-based governance of grassroots society.
Through "back-to-back" mediation and "face-to-face" consultation, at the Comprehensive Social Governance Center of Wuhou District, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, a neighborhood dispute caused by the installation of elevators in an old residential community was mediated here. Street cadres stationed at the center, public interest lawyers, and people's mediators jointly clarified legal rights and responsibilities for residents, calculated cost sharing, and assessed construction impacts. A plan acceptable to all parties was reached, and a dispute that might have ended up taking a case to court (对簿公堂, dui bu gong tang - "face, court; enter, hall") was resolved before litigation.
This is not only a vivid practice of the Fengqiao model in the new era, but also a microcosm of the standardized operation of nearly 3,000 county-level comprehensive governance centers nationwide. The comprehensive governance centers integrate functions such as mediation, arbitration, administrative adjudication, and administrative reconsideration, achieving "one-stop acceptance, a complete package or a comprehensive set (一揽子, yi lan zi - "one, basket, bundle") of mediation, and whole-chain resolution" of all kinds of demands from the people.
"In the next step, we will comprehensively deepen the standardized construction of comprehensive governance centers, build them into an important basic platform for substantively resolving conflicts and disputes in accordance with the law, and ensure that every demand of the people is handled by someone and handled in accordance with the law." Teng Jiguo, Deputy Secretary-General of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, said.
— Promoting the rule-of-law supervision system to become increasingly rigorous.
To build a rule-of-law China, it is necessary to promptly improve the mechanisms for restricting and supervising the exercise of power, standardize the exercise of power by legislative, law enforcement, and judicial organs, and build a rule-of-law supervision system under the unified leadership of the Party that is comprehensive in coverage, authoritative, and efficient.
In October 2026, with the approval of the Party Central Committee, the Office of the Central Commission for Comprehensive Law-Based Governance launched rule-of-law inspections of leading cadres' performance of duties in accordance with the law. Eight inspection teams were dispatched to eight provinces (autonomous regions) — Hebei, Heilongjiang, Fujian, Shandong, Tibet, Shaanxi, Qinghai, and Xinjiang — as well as the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, to carry out on-site inspections.
"Since 2025, during the special campaign to regulate administrative law enforcement involving enterprises, public security organs have cumulatively released sealed and seized property valued at 1.38 billion yuan, returned 2.22 billion yuan of impounded funds, lawfully changed or lifted freezes on 199,000 accounts, and released 8.98 billion yuan in funds." Yang Weilin, Vice Minister of Public Security, introduced that in the next step, the combination of "immediate rectification" and "long-term establishment" will be adhered to, long-term mechanisms will be further improved, prominent problems will continue to be investigated and corrected, and the level of standardization of law enforcement involving enterprises will be continuously raised.
— Promoting the rule-of-law guarantee system to become more robust.
To build a rule-of-law China, it is necessary to strengthen political, organizational, team, talent, scientific and technological, and information guarantees, providing important support for comprehensive law-based governance.
At present, China has established the world's largest legal education system, cultivating and supplying more than 100,000 specialized rule-of-law talents every year. "We must, under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, promptly accelerate the construction of an independent Chinese legal knowledge system." Teng Jiguo said.
At present, a public legal service system covering urban and rural areas, convenient and efficient, equal and inclusive, has been basically completed. "We will accelerate the implementation of the project to integrate the three major platforms of public legal services — physical entities, hotlines, and the internet — promote the substantive online handling of service matters, better utilize new technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and big data, enhance the intelligence level of legal consultation and business handling, and provide the people with 24-hour 'never closed' public legal services." Li Mingzheng stated.
— Promoting the system of intra-Party regulations to become increasingly complete.
"Adhering to the organic unity of law-based governance and rule-based governance of the Party" is a prominent manifestation of the continuous enrichment and development of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, and holds an important position and significance in the system of the "Twelve Persistences" core essentials.
In December 2025, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting to review the Regulations of the Communist Party of China on the Work of Leading Comprehensive Law-Based Governance.
As of the end of December 2025, there are 3,372 intra-Party regulations currently in effect. "The system of intra-Party regulations is continuously moving toward scientific content, rigorous procedures, complete supporting measures, and effective operation, with the rigid binding force of institutions continuously strengthened, making the Party stronger and more robust through revolutionary tempering." Chu Songyan, Director of the United Front Teaching and Research Department of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee (National Academy of Governance), said.
The "Decision" of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee emphasized "improving the mechanism for linking and coordinating intra-Party regulations with national laws and administrative regulations." This will better promote the organic unity of law-based governance and rule-based governance of the Party, providing a strong institutional guarantee for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
"Pay more attention to the coordination of the rule of law with reform, development, and stability, and pay more attention to safeguarding and promoting social fairness and justice"
The construction of a rule-of-law China in the new era has always adhered to advancing reform under the rule of law, perfecting the rule of law through reform, and deepening reform and development in the stability guaranteed by the rule of law.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, "Pay more attention to the coordination of the rule of law with reform, development, and stability, and pay more attention to safeguarding and promoting social fairness and justice."
The Hainan Free Trade Port is about to usher in the first anniversary of the full island customs closure operation.
In Hainan, "small-cut" legislation, through "one matter, one law," tailors precise solutions for reform and innovation.
The Several Provisions on Facilitating Drug Import, with only 8 articles, makes the filing and customs clearance of imported drugs at the Hainan Free Trade Port more convenient, further shortening the time for drug import;
The Provisions Against Consumer Fraud, with only 20 articles, focuses on classifying and grading penalties for 14 typical types of consumer fraud, such as shortchanging and coercive selling, promoting the improvement of the consumption environment;
From the authorization by the NPC Standing Committee to carry out pilot programs, to the formulation of the Hainan Free Trade Port Law, to the introduction of supporting regulations and rules by Hainan Province, the comprehensive rule-of-law guarantee system of "authorized pilot + national legislation + local legislation" ensures that major reforms have legal basis.
Innovation is the primary driving force for development, and protecting intellectual property rights is protecting innovation.
From the completion of a new round of amendments to the Patent Law, introducing punitive damages and significantly increasing the cost of infringement; to relevant administrative authorities continuously carrying out special campaigns and establishing rapid coordinated protection mechanisms; to people's courts continuously strengthening the construction of specialized intellectual property adjudication institutions and promoting "three-in-one" adjudication of intellectual property cases... An intellectual property protection system with close linkage and efficient coordination among legislation, law enforcement, and justice is continuously improving, injecting strong momentum into high-quality development.
Using rule-of-law thinking and rule-of-law methods to maintain stability requires scientifically grasping the dialectical relationship between "leniency" and "strictness."
In July 2026, the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission held a video conference on the special campaign against gang crime and evil forces nationwide, formally deploying a one-year deepening of the special campaign against gang crime and evil forces, emphasizing the need to highlight the focus of the crackdown. On the basis of lawfully and severely cracking down on traditional gang forces and evil forces, the focus will be on cracking down on organized gang crimes and evil crimes committed through online platforms and "soft violence" means.
For serious violent crimes that seriously endanger national security and social stability, and for telecom and online fraud and gang-related crimes that the people deeply detest, political and legal organs have always maintained a high-pressure posture and severely punished them in accordance with the law. This is the "strict" hand, the cornerstone of maintaining social tranquility.
At the same time, for cases arising from civil disputes, with relatively minor criminal circumstances, where the defendant sincerely repents and obtains forgiveness, the systems of leniency for pleading guilty and accepting punishment and criminal reconciliation are accurately applied, probation is actively applied, and community correction is strengthened. This is the "lenient" hand, aimed at resolving social conflicts and promoting social harmony.
"At present, the Supreme People's Procuratorate is working with relevant departments to study and draft relevant guiding documents, promote the improvement of specific law enforcement and judicial standards for leniency and strictness in different types of cases, and effectively enhance the coordination, uniformity, and effectiveness of policy implementation." Miao Shengming, Deputy Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, said.
The key to governing a country lies in fairness and uprightness.
"Strive to let the people feel fairness and justice in every legal institution, every law enforcement decision, and every judicial case." This is both a solemn commitment and an unremitting pursuit.
To unify adjudication standards, the Supreme People's Court has built a case database for people's courts, collecting guiding cases issued by the Supreme People's Court and reference cases that, after review by the Supreme People's Court, are considered to have demonstrative value for the adjudication of similar cases, and requires that adjudication of cases must consult the case database and refer to similar cases in the database when making judgments.
"Seeing that similar cases across the country are all adjudicated this way, I am fully convinced!" In a civil dispute case of "a consumer slipping and injuring herself in a hotel bathroom" heard by the Wushen Banner People's Court in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the plaintiff said after seeing the "Similar Case Reference" delivered together with the judgment.
"We must deepen the reform of the criminal procedure system centered on adjudication, the reform of the mechanism for separating simple and complex civil litigation procedures, and the reform of jurisdiction over administrative litigation cases, implement and improve the judicial responsibility system, enhance the fairness, stability, and authority of judicial decisions, and strive to achieve the settlement of cases, the resolution of disputes, and harmony among the people." Teng Jiguo said.
The law does not favor the powerful, and the plumb line does not bend to accommodate crookedness.
A series of powerful measures are making the belief in the rule of law increasingly take root in people's hearts, the atmosphere of the rule of law increasingly strong, and the foundation of the rule of law increasingly solid. This will surely provide a strong rule-of-law guarantee for comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization!
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 11) (Reporter Wu Qiuyu) The China Monetary Policy Implementation Report for the Third Quarter of 2026, released by the People's Bank of China, shows that in the first three quarters of this year, China's total financial aggregates maintained reasonable growth. At the end of September, the stock of aggregate social financing and broad money supply grew by 7.1 percent and 7.2 percent year on year, respectively. The overall cost of social financing remained at a low level. In September, the interest rate on newly issued corporate loans was slightly below 3.0 percent, about 0.2 percentage points lower than the same period last year; the interest rate on newly issued individual housing loans was approximately 3.1 percent, essentially flat compared with the same period last year. At the same time, the credit structure continued to improve. As of the end of September, loans for science and technology, green loans, inclusive loans, loans to the elderly care industry, and loans to the digital economy industry grew by 12.0 percent, 13.0 percent, 6.5 percent, 16.2 percent, and 15.7 percent year on year, respectively, consistently outpacing the growth rate of overall loans.
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Unify strict management and oversight with encouraging responsible action, and through clarifying direction, establishing rules, rectifying conduct, and strengthening immunity, form a clean and upright political ecosystem within the Party, and create a favorable environment conducive to undertaking work and starting businesses.
Listening to township and town cadres discuss work style improvement, a few remarks left a deep impression: "Keep your mouth shut—resolutely do not eat what you should not eat; keep your hands still—resolutely do not touch what you should not touch; keep your legs still—resolutely do not go where you should not go" and "Management is stricter, but we are also more motivated"...
Iron rules and hard constraints—the results are easily seen (可见一斑, ke jian yi ban - "can, see, one, part").
The key to full and rigorous self-governance of the Party lies in strictness, and persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party must be consistent from beginning to end (一以贯之, yi yi guan zhi - "one, use, through, connect") and strict to the very end. The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party made strategic arrangements for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, listed "upholding full and strict governance" as one of the principles that must be followed, emphasized "unwaveringly maintaining the strict tone," and also emphasized "fully stimulating the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the entire Party."
Since the advent of the new era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has begun by breaking new ground with the Central Eight-Point Regulation, leading the entire Party to enforce strictness in ideology, strictness in oversight, strictness in discipline enforcement, strictness in cadre management, strictness in work style, and strictness in anti-corruption. The awareness of loyalty, integrity, and responsibility among Party members and cadres has markedly increased, and their abilities to promote high-quality development, serve the people, prevent and defuse risks, and carry out work using rule-of-law thinking and rule-of-law methods have been further enhanced.
Full and rigorous self-governance of the Party and encouraging responsible action are inherently unified. To deeply study and understand the spirit of the Plenary Session, we must fully recognize that strict management is deep care, firmly establish and persistently uphold a strict atmosphere, a correct style of conduct, and a spirit of hard work, and demonstrate new achievements and create new accomplishments on the new journey.
"Genuinely manage strictly, boldly manage strictly, and persistently manage strictly"—unwaveringly maintain the strict tone.
First, look at school meals. In the past, in some places they were treated as "monk's flesh" and became "muddled accounts," behind which lay the "micro-corruption" of individuals abusing power for personal gain.
How to rectify this? Both strict investigation and strict management are needed. Fenxi County in Shanxi Province, starting from clues of serious discrepancies between the weight of ingredients entering school warehouses and the receipts, seriously investigated and punished those responsible for intercepting food funds and siphoning off funds; Helan County in Ningxia implemented dedicated account accounting, made public supervision QR codes and traceability information for bulk ingredients, and established parent committees for dietary supervision...
"All issues strongly reflected by the masses must be treated seriously and conscientiously, and all acts that harm the interests of the masses must be resolutely corrected." The more "flies and ants" of corruption, the more strictness must come first—keep a close watch on problems without letting up, and punish according to law without leniency.
Next, look at "outside the eight hours." Do Party members and cadres have boundaries in their words and actions?
Strictly observing discipline only has a "present continuous tense." General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Cadres must be subject to all-round management, unifying behavioral management with ideological management, linking management of the work circle with management of the social circle, and connecting management within the eight hours with management outside the eight hours."
During traditional festivals, many localities issue reminders for clean holiday celebrations, open special zones for supervision and reporting exposure, and increase the intensity of publicizing and exposing typical cases; when cadres are about to be promoted, some local discipline inspection and supervision commissions present family-education reading materials and urge family members to serve as family "discipline inspection committee members"...
Always keep the sharp sword suspended high, and put effort into constancy and longevity, strictness and substance, depth and detail—only then can we manage habits into being and achieve results through enforcement.
"Combine strict management with deep care, and balance incentives with constraints"—stimulate the spirit of undertaking work and starting businesses.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, "Strictness is not about tying everyone up in knots, making people hesitant and cautious due to worrying about consequences (瞻前顾后, zhan qian gu hou - "look, front, consider, back"), timid and hesitant to act (畏首畏尾, wei shou wei wei - "fear, head, fear, tail"), and turning everything into a gloomy and lacking vitality (暮气沉沉, mu qi chen chen - "evening, air, sink, sink") stagnant pool of inaction."
Take the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port as an example. Pioneering and piloting often requires breaking new ground, breaking through difficulties, and breaking open the situation. Some cadres harbor concerns about making mistakes and taking responsibility.
The "Measures for Tolerance of Errors and Correction of Mistakes for Public Officials of the Hainan Free Trade Port (Trial)" and the "Working Rules of Hainan Province on Using Cases to Promote Education, Using Cases to Promote Reform, and Using Cases to Promote Governance (Trial)" were issued and implemented, and typical cases of positive incentives for responsible action and negative disciplinary cases of non-action and non-responsibility are regularly publicized simultaneously...
Local cadres said frankly: "We clearly and unequivocally back those who do real work." After the island-wide customs closure operation, policy dividends continue to be released, market vitality is accelerating, industrial development is taking shape and gaining momentum, and a high-quality start has been achieved.
Since the advent of the new era, Party members and cadres have been concentrated and single-minded (心无旁骛, xin wu pang wu - "heart, no, side, distracted") in undertaking their work and unswervingly and thoroughly (不折不扣, bu zhe bu kou - "not, bend, not, deduct") implementing tasks, being tested on the front lines of the decisive battle against poverty, fighting the epidemic, and responding to external suppression and containment, daring to take responsibility and acting well within the premise of observing rules and discipline.
Laws, regulations, and institutions are a "tightening band," but even more so a "protective talisman." We must unify strict management and oversight with encouraging responsible action, and through clarifying direction, establishing rules, rectifying conduct, and strengthening immunity, form a clean and upright political ecosystem within the Party, and create a favorable environment conducive to undertaking work and starting businesses.
On the new journey, "manage body and mind" in discipline and "unleash hands and feet" in career, be strict with oneself, strictly fulfill one's responsibilities, and strictly manage what is under one's purview—we will surely live up to the times and the people, and promote new progress in Chinese modernization through solid work and tangible results.
Return to TopIn recent times, some coffee shops and tea drink stores have successively implemented measures requiring customers to be seated only after making a purchase, sparking widespread discussion. How should we view the policy of seating only after purchase? We issued a call for submissions on the "People's Daily Commentary" WeChat public account, and this installment of "Everyone's Discussion" selects three submissions to talk about thoughts on seating only after purchase.
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Limited Resources Should Be Allocated in an Orderly Manner
Tianjin Municipality, Beichen District — Qin Ziyang
Once in a shopping mall, tired from walking, I went into a coffee shop to rest my feet. After ordering coffee, I found there was no seat available, yet the seats were occupied by people who had not made any purchase. The shop assistant had no choice but to bring over a stool and arrange for me to sit by the bar counter.
The seats in a shop are business resources, not free public facilities. Operating a business requires bearing costs such as rent, labor, utilities, and so on. If seats are occupied for long periods by customers who have not paid, it will affect business revenue. Moreover, many themed dining establishments today distinguish themselves precisely through their environment and atmosphere. Non-paying customers crowding out limited resources will not only affect the experience of paying customers, but also, to a certain extent, disrupt normal business operations.
The creation of a good environment depends on individual self-discipline and also on specific rules. Clarifying that seating requires purchase is a way of giving priority to paying customers for limited resources. When limited resources are allocated in an orderly manner and rules are set in advance, friction can be reduced. Of course, some people worry whether the establishment of rules will affect the relaxed atmosphere of consumer venues. In fact, relaxation does not mean the absence of boundaries. A more civilized and orderly consumer environment can, on the contrary, bring an even greater sense of ease.
Nor Should It Lose Its Human Touch
Shandong Province, Weifang City — Zhan Chunlin
Seating only after purchase is an autonomous choice by merchants to maintain store operations and give priority to protecting consumer rights, and it has its practical considerations, which is unexceptionable or blameless (无可厚非, wu ke hou fei - "not, can, thick, fault"). But it must also be recognized that commercial spaces are an organic component of the city. They not only serve a consumption function, but also carry the warmth of everyday life. Seating only after purchase conforms to commercial logic, but it should also retain a human touch.
Rules can be established, but warmth should not be diminished. For example, in the design of rules, could there be more consideration given to providing services within one's means for people with temporary needs? In the enforcement of rules, could there be less harshness in tone? And could there be more consideration of "if I were the customer" in the wording of notice signs? Rules and goodwill have never been an either-or situation with no middle ground (非此即彼, fei ci ji bi - "not, this, then, that"). Maintaining reasonable flexibility and leaving room for humanistic care does not necessarily harm business; on the contrary, it can increase goodwill toward the brand.
The long-term vitality of a business ultimately stems from people's hearts. What wins consumer acclaim is not only quality goods, but also service full of human warmth. By finding a balance between cost considerations and public goodwill, and making commercial spaces orderly yet not lacking in warmth, enterprises will go further.
Public Spaces Should Fill the Supply Gap
Guangdong Province, Guangzhou City — Kong Deqi
The heated discussion over seating only after purchase, on the surface, is a debate about seating rules in commercial venues; at a deeper level, it reflects citizens' expectations for convenient rest spaces. This also serves as a reminder for the construction of urban public spaces.
On the one hand, urban public services cannot rely solely on commercial spaces. Planners and designers of public spaces should not only focus on comprehensive plazas and large parks, but should also turn their attention to the marginal spaces in streets and alleys. A bench that can be sat on, a pergola that provides shade — these seemingly inconspicuous details are not large in scale, yet they are closely tied to people's daily needs of resting while walking and waiting. By putting effort into "micro-spaces" and extending the "tentacles" of urban public services, the public's sense of gain will be stronger.
On the other hand, public spaces cannot only have a "good-looking" exterior, but must also have a "useful" interior. In recent years, localities have continuously advanced the construction of outdoor workers' stations and promoted the "upgrading" of party and mass service centers, expanding the supply channels for convenient spaces and also promoting the equalization of public services. This also shows that in building public spaces well, it is necessary to avoid the tendency of "emphasizing scenery over practicality," so that the supply of public service facilities truly aligns with what the public needs.
By continuously weaving a denser public service network and placing more "small but beautiful" convenience carriers close to the people, the city will become warmer.
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Underwater robots replace humans for deep-sea operations, and brain-computer interface medical devices help patients recover limb function... Walking through Tianjin Binhai New Area and watching cutting-edge technology accelerate its landing, one cannot help but feel that "the future has already arrived."
During his inspection in Tianjin, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that "scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation must be pursued together." Promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation is the key to leading the development of new quality productive forces through high-level self-reliance and strength in science and technology.
In practice, from scientific and technological innovation to industrial application, one must still break through multiple barriers such as pilot testing, engineering, and financing continuity — a process regarded as the "valley of death."
How can the "thrilling leap" be achieved? Three categories of common issues cannot be ignored: whether research and development can accurately grasp demand, whether capital can be tolerant and build momentum, and whether governance can keep pace with change.
Five industrial clusters have been selected into the national advanced manufacturing clusters, and the transaction value of technology contracts exceeds 80 billion yuan... From the answer sheet of Tianjin Binhai New Area, one can glimpse the experience of efficient coordination between the innovation chain and the industrial chain.
What can be developed must also be put to use.
The information technology application innovation industry is a window for observing the alignment of research and application. For a long time, a major pain point of domestic professional software has been the gap between being usable and being easy to use: on paper, functions meet the standard, but the user experience always seems lacking a bit of perfection or skill (欠几分火候, qian ji fen huo hou - "lack, a few, points, heat/skill").
Exploring information technology application innovation in the water sector, Tianjin Water Group has provided support in adaptation verification, technical breakthroughs, and ecosystem cultivation; in developing multi-effect simulation CAE (computer-aided engineering) software, multiple enterprises in fields such as petroleum engineering and blasting and mining have provided application scenarios... To solve the problem of being unsuited to local conditions (水土不服, shui tu bu fu - "water, soil, not, adapt"), the secret of the Haihe Laboratory of Information Technology Application Innovation lies in coordination.
Moving beyond "producing results first and then seeking transformation," deploying the innovation chain around the industrial chain and creating a systematic innovation pattern of "the industrial chain sets the questions, the laboratory answers them" can effectively avoid innovation that is unrealistic or disconnected from practical reality (不接地气, bu jie di qi - "not, connect, earth, energy").
Only those who can endure can go far.
From the sprouting of innovation to the formation of an industry, investment is large and the cycle is long; the long journey requires solid financial support.
Sublue, a pioneer in the domestic underwater robot industry. Light assets and heavy research and development place it at a disadvantage in credit financing. Local venture capital companies injected the living water of capital at the early stage of entrepreneurship, government-backed financing guarantee institutions provided strong support at critical stages, and banks issued medium- and long-term working capital loans to break the dilemma of "short-term loans for long-term use"... With multi-faceted support and companionship, the new track ultimately blossomed and bore fruit.
Improving the evaluation-oriented mechanism, creating a fair, transparent, and predictable investment environment, and guiding financial institutions to adhere to long-termism will help write more innovation stories of accumulating strength and making a late breakthrough.
Running fast also requires landing steadily.
Emerging industries and future industries are often accompanied by "creative destruction." Rather than responding passively, it is better to make arrangements in advance.
"As soon as the mind thinks of it, the feet really do step forward." The "Shengong" series of brain-computer interaction innovative medical devices developed by Tianjin University has served thousands of patients cumulatively.
"Science fiction scenes" entering the clinic benefit from the local full-chain protection and escort. Supporting research institutions and hospitals in jointly building clinical research platforms; establishing and improving safety prevention and ethical review mechanisms, and standardizing the collection, management, and use of databases... Making the "first move" of optimizing the environment and building mechanisms is conducive to reducing potential "friction."
Balancing the encouragement of innovation with the prevention of risks, and keeping up in a timely manner in terms of rules, institutions, and standards, is an examination question that governance must answer well.
The "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Developing New Quality Productive Forces" proposes "creating a sound development ecosystem conducive to the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation." Nurturing the ecosystem lies in removing "hardening" and thickening the fertile soil suitable for the vigorous growth of new drivers.
Kunshan, Jiangsu, has established a "scenario office" headed by the executive vice mayor, systematically opening up real application scenarios; Longgang District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, is building a reform and innovation experimental zone for artificial intelligence and robot application, weaving the scenario network ever denser... Looking across the country, all localities are strengthening their exploration. Focusing on deepening reform around the close integration of science and technology with the economy, and enabling technology and industry to better join hands, the momentum of high-quality development will be even more surging.
(The author is an editor of the Comment Department of this newspaper.)
Return to TopChina is a major agricultural country, and agricultural products concern not only farmers' income growth and prosperity but also every aspect of residents' daily lives. Not long ago, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued the "15th Five-Year Plan for Improving the Quality of National Agricultural Products," which clearly sets forth goals such as that by 2030, the standard system for high-quality development of China's agriculture will be more complete, and the capacity for standardized and green production of agricultural products will be markedly improved, promoting a shift in agriculture from being primarily output-oriented to placing equal emphasis on output and quality.
This is precisely:
Fine goods from farm households,
Abundant and beautiful things (琳琅满目, lin lang man mu - "fine jade, full, eyes") fill the fields.
Fresh fragrance fills the mouth and cheeks,
Happiness moistens the heart.
Xu Zhiwen
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In late autumn, in Yingshang County, Fuyang, Anhui, more than 5,000 ornamental persimmon trees are bearing abundant fruit (硕果盈枝, shuo guo ying zhi - "fruit, abundant, fill, branches"). The locality has adhered to a practice of not picking the persimmons from these ornamental trees for 22 years, leaving them for migratory birds to survive the winter. Every summer, in Xixinan Village, Huangshan, Anhui, the maple and poplar forest along the Fengle River takes turns "resting" during the peak tourist season, pressing the "energy-accumulation key" for the entire expanse of greenery.
Leaving fruit on the branches and letting the forest rest to recover — choices that seem "not worth it" have nonetheless written a major chapter on the integrated symbiosis of ecology and development. From the initial 800 trees to the more than 5,000 today, the Yingshang persimmon trees produce approximately 1.5 million jin of fruit annually, and the species and numbers of migratory birds stopping over here have grown year by year. After the rotation system was implemented, the maple and poplar forest in Xixinan Village has become increasingly lush, forming a seamless whole (浑然一体, hun ran yi ti - "completely, as if, one, body") with the ancient village of white walls and dark tiles. The persimmon trees are the "granary" for migratory birds wintering over; the forest is the "lung" through which the earth breathes. Leave a measure of blank space for ecology, and nature will return to the human world tenfold vitality.
This is a new path for green development. In 2025, the ornamental persimmon trees of Yingshang welcomed approximately 526,400 tourist visits, driving tourism consumption of 315 million yuan. At present, Xixinan Village receives more than 2 million tourist visits annually, and a growing number of villagers are earning their living from the "tourism bowl." Leaving one tree of persimmons brings in a city full of customers; letting a stretch of forest rest invites lasting prosperity. Only when the ecology improves can urban and rural areas gain vitality and development gain staying power.
This is culture that permeates the heart. Years of safeguarding the scene of "ten thousand birds pecking at persimmons" have given Yingshang a shining city name card. Behind the "green wonderland"-like scenery of Xixinan Village lies the villagers' self-awareness of letting nature take a rest. When loving and protecting greenery shifts from advocacy to habit, it not only brings people a fine experience but also settles into a profound cultural heritage.
Respecting, conforming to, and protecting nature will surely benefit posterity, while harming nature will hurt humanity itself. Only by properly handling the relationships among ecological protection, green development, and improvement of people's livelihoods, and by promoting the "Two Mountains" concept to take root in people's hearts, can we answer well the mandatory question in the modernization process of "how should humanity get along with nature."
If humanity does not fail the green mountains, the green mountains will surely not fail humanity. Unswerving and steadfast (坚定不移, jian ding bu yi - "firm, steady, not, move") in taking the path of green, low-carbon, circular, and sustainable development, jointly building the foundation of an ecological civilization, and promoting the harmonious coexistence of humanity and nature, we will surely continue to paint a beautiful picture of bluer skies, greener mountains, and cleaner waters.
(Excerpted from Anhui Daily, original title: "Leaving Fruit and Resting Forests, Transforming Ecological Advantages into Development Advantages")
Return to TopBy: 常 钦
Vast fertile fields stretch for a thousand li, wheat waves roll, and rice and beans send forth their fragrance; in the fields, harvesters shuttle back and forth; at storage depots, drying and warehousing proceed in orderly succession. At present, the autumn grain harvest is advancing steadily. In the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, all parties joined hands to meet multiple challenges such as the large-scale late sowing of winter wheat and torrential rain and flooding; summer grain output broke the 300-billion-jin mark for the first time, early rice achieved stable production, and autumn grain production is generally trending well, with a bountiful harvest in sight.
The "bumper harvest" scene is picturesque and gratifying, yet it also invites reflection: with grain harvests succeeding year after year, why must we still make intensive efforts every year? Behind this lie considerations of responding to uncertainty, plans for high-quality development, and concerns for the people's livelihood ledger.
From the perspective of the bottom line, the more consecutive years of bumper harvests, the more clearly we must perceive the uncertainty behind the harvest. Agricultural production has its cycles; missing the farming season is hard to make up for, and damaged soil fertility cannot be quickly restored. As the once-in-a-century transformation accelerates and the international environment grows complex and volatile, food security cannot depend on the external market remaining always stable or natural conditions always favorable. Holding the rice bowl firmly depends on laying a solid foundation in ordinary times, not on acting only when a crisis arises (临渴掘井, lin ke jue jing - "approach the well when thirsty") or scrambling to find grain at the last moment.
A single irrigation ditch can weigh the significance of making preparations in advance for potential difficulties (未雨绸缪, wei yu chou mou - "before rain, prepare umbrellas"). In Gaokang Village, Yicheng City, Hubei Province, the paddy fields of large-scale grower Zou Kai, after high-standard farmland renovation, saw machine-access roads widened and hardened and irrigation and drainage conditions improved. This year, when continuous rainy weather struck, opening the sluice gates allowed smooth drainage, and the farmland suffered almost no losses. These seemingly ordinary field projects are, at critical moments, the "ballast stone" that secures the harvest.
This reminds us that we must not think of water conservancy only when disaster strikes, or of drying only when rushing the harvest. Only by making cultivated land protection, soil fertility improvement, superior seed selection and breeding, agricultural machinery and equipment maintenance, and disaster prevention and mitigation capacity building part of daily routine can we distill the experience of responding to risks time and again into more stable production capacity.
From the development perspective, unrelentingly ensuring grain production is also about expanding the space for high-quality development. We must recognize the potential of technological progress and industrial upgrading in agricultural development. The pairing of superior seeds with superior methods allows the same mu of land to yield more and better grain; the spread of socialized services enables smallholder farmers to use advanced technology; the integration of processing, warehousing, and logistics allows every grain of food to continuously increase in value along the industrial chain.
Agricultural modernization is both an answer to how to "stabilize grain output" and an answer to how to "enhance the comprehensive agricultural production capacity and quality and efficiency." In this regard, agriculture has become a new growth point for expanding domestic demand and driving county-level economic development. Grasping grain production is itself grasping development.
From the perspective of people's livelihood, only when grain harvests are abundant and the industrial chain is lengthened can farmers' incomes continue to rise. Growing grain entails costs for agricultural inputs and labor, and also bears weather and market risks. To protect the enthusiasm for grain growing, we must both help farmers reduce costs and increase efficiency, and also make grain sales channels smoother and ensure grain payments reach farmers promptly. Therefore, unrelentingly ensuring grain production requires both making continuous and unremitting efforts (常抓不懈, chang zhua bu xie - "constantly grasp, not slacken") on output and making sufficient efforts to safeguard farmers' income from grain growing.
From all localities raising autumn grain purchase funds to ensure "money waits for grain" rather than "grain waits for money," to improving support policies on prices, subsidies, and insurance, and further to promoting premium prices for premium grain and improving mechanisms that link farmers with agricultural enterprises... Only by giving farmers reasonable returns and stable expectations can we stimulate the drive of grain growers to grow more grain and grow better grain, giving the next season's production greater momentum.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Ensuring the stable supply of grain and other important agricultural products is the top priority in agricultural production." In the harvest season, autumn harvesting and autumn sowing proceed in succession, and today is linked to tomorrow. To unrelentingly ensure grain production, we must recognize the achievements, and also understand where they came from and how they can be sustained. The more solidly we consolidate the production capacity foundation, the more broadly we expand development space, and the better we protect farmers' incomes, the more confidence we will accumulate for bumper harvests year after year.
Return to TopBy: 李书磊
Emphasizing ideological Party-building and theoretical Party-strengthening is a glorious tradition of our Party, and it is also a distinctive feature of managing, governing, strengthening, and invigorating the Party in the new era. 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, makes an important strategic deployment for "persisting in using the Party's innovative theories to unite hearts and forge souls," fully reflecting the theoretical self-awareness of Chinese Communists in the new era and fully reflecting the foundational position of the Party's ideological development. We must deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's thought on Party-building, unremittingly use the Party's innovative theories to unite hearts and forge souls, continuously raise the Marxist level of the whole Party, continuously consolidate the common ideological foundation for the united struggle of the whole Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country, and provide a strong ideological guarantee, powerful spiritual force, and favorable cultural conditions for comprehensively building a modern socialist country and comprehensively advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
I. Deeply Understand the Great Significance of Using the Party's Innovative Theories to Unite Hearts and Forge Souls
The flourishing of civilization and the rejuvenation of a nation require both powerful material forces and powerful ideological forces. Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is contemporary Chinese Marxism and Marxism of the 21st century, is the ideological banner of the Communist Party of China in the new era, and is the guide to action for the whole Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country in striving for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Persisting in using Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to unite hearts and forge souls bears on the Party's long-term governance, bears on the country's enduring peace and stability, and bears on the future and destiny of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and has major and far-reaching significance.
(1) Using the Party's innovative theories to unite hearts and forge souls is an inevitable requirement for strengthening the Party spirit of Communists. Only when theory is strong can Party spirit be strong; sobriety and firmness in ideology and theory are the premise for maturity and steadfastness in Party spirit. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "To forge an 'indestructible body,' one must arm the mind with scientific theory and continuously cultivate our spiritual home." In reality, the reason some Party members and cadres have weak Party spirit, acting under the control of external desires (心为物役, xin wei wu yi - "heart, become, object, slave"), and develop problems such as abusing power for personal gain, embezzlement and bribery, and extravagance and indulgence, is fundamentally that problems have arisen in their thinking. To consolidate the ideological foundation of Party spirit, genuine ideological and cultural resources are necessary. Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era adheres to the Two Integrations (两个结合), is rooted in the fertile soil of China, is the essence of the times of Chinese culture and the Chinese spirit, and is the best theoretical resource for Communists in the new era to strengthen their Party spirit. We must regard studying, comprehending, and applying Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the fundamental path to strengthening Party spirit cultivation, draw from it the spiritual nourishment of firming up ideals and convictions, forging loyalty to the Party, deepening feelings for the people, adhering to seeking truth from facts, purifying moral character, and maintaining integrity and honesty, and from the ideological level rectify the source and consolidate the foundation, firm up the foundation of faith, replenish the calcium of the spirit, and steady the helm of thought.
(2) Using the Party's innovative theories to unite hearts and forge souls is an inevitable requirement for strengthening the Party's ideological development. Persisting in strengthening ideological development is the magic weapon for our Party to forever maintain its advanced nature and purity. The most iconic, leading, and pioneering achievement of the Party's ideological development in the new era is the establishment of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, achieving a new leap in the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism. Every step forward in theoretical innovation must be followed by a step forward in theoretical arming. Our Party holds high the ideological banner, comprehensively strengthens the arming of the Party's innovative theories, continuously carries out learning and education, publicity and interpretation, and research and explanation, and promotes the Party's innovative theories to take root in people's hearts day by day. At the same time, we must see that the structure of the contingent of Party members and cadres has undergone profound changes, ideological and cultural competition is complex and fierce, and technologies such as the Internet and artificial intelligence are accelerating the restructuring of learning and education methods, posing major challenges to the Party's ideological development. Only by persisting in using Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to unite hearts and forge souls, improving and implementing the long-term mechanism of learning to forge souls, learning to increase wisdom, learning to rectify conduct, and learning to promote action, and promoting Party members and cadres to truly learn, truly understand, truly believe, and truly apply, can the whole Party always maintain unified thinking, firm will, and powerful combat effectiveness, and can the Party forever maintain the political nature of the vanguard.
(3) Using the Party's innovative theories to unite hearts and forge souls is an inevitable requirement for maintaining the Party's unity and solidarity. Unity and solidarity are the life of the Party and the source of the Party's strength. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that on the basis of the principle of Party spirit, we must continuously enhance true unity that enables us to open our hearts to each other and strive side by side. Such unity can only be achieved through a common guiding ideology and common beliefs and convictions. Our Party has more than 100 million Party members and more than 5.4 million primary-level Party organizations. For such a large political party, with diverse sources of Party membership and diverse ideological conditions, to unite the whole Party into "a piece of hard steel" and avoid each going its own way and each acting as it sees fit, unified thinking is indispensable. Persisting in using Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to unite hearts and forge souls can provide the deepest, most enduring, and most reliable guarantee for the Party's unity and solidarity through ideological unity, promote Party members and cadres to deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the Two Establishments (两个确立), strengthen the Four Consciousnesses (四个意识), firm up the Four Confidences (四个自信), and achieve the Two Upholds (两个维护), unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, and advance in unison.
(4) Using the Party's innovative theories to unite hearts and forge souls is an inevitable requirement for accomplishing the Party's mission and tasks on the new journey of the new era. Theoretical advantage is the unique advantage of a Marxist political party. The reason why the Communist Party of China can accomplish arduous tasks that other political forces cannot accomplish is, in the final analysis, that Marxism works, and that Sinicized and modernized Marxism works. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, our Party has successfully completed the historical task of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, and is now comprehensively advancing the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization. This is an unprecedented pioneering undertaking, which will inevitably encounter unpredictable fields and brand-new topics, and will inevitably encounter unpredictable contradictions, risks, and challenges. The more we open up new prospects for the development of the cause, the more we tackle difficulties and break through barriers, the more we need theory to guide the direction and the more we need theory to unite people's hearts. Only by persisting in using Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to unite hearts and forge souls can we discern historical trends and grasp the laws of development amid profound and complex environmental changes, and can we fundamentally ensure that all Party members and cadres forge ahead with determination and vigor, continuously opening up new prospects for Chinese modernization.
II. Firmly Grasp the Basic Requirements for Using the Party's Innovative Theories to Unite Hearts and Forge Souls
Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is systematic, comprehensive, broad, and profound. It not only puts forward a series of original new concepts, new ideas, and new strategies, but also teaches us correct and effective standpoints, viewpoints, and methods, and endows us with powerful spiritual strength and Party spirit nourishment. We must consciously use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to arm our minds, guide practice, and promote work, use this thought to purify our souls, raise our consciousness, and elevate our realm, strive with vigor and determination, work hard and act with sincerity, and strive to create achievements that stand up to the test of practice, the people, and history.
(1) Comprehensively master the main content of the Party's innovative theories. Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era covers reform, development, and stability, internal affairs, foreign affairs, and national defense, and Party governance, state governance, and military governance, with extremely rich connotations. The "Ten Clarifications," the Fourteen Commitments (十四个坚持), and the "Thirteen Aspects of Achievements" summarize the main content of this thought and constitute its "four beams and eight pillars." In studying and comprehending the Party's innovative theories, we must proceed from each part, accurately understand iconic major concepts, original ideological viewpoints, and principled theoretical achievements, thoroughly grasp the basic spirit and grasp the practical requirements, so as to achieve understanding and gain from learning; we must also base ourselves on the entirety of the thought, grasp the scientific system of the thought as a whole, clarify the internal logic among different contents, and achieve mastery through comprehensive study and the ability to infer the rest from one instance.
(2) Deeply grasp the standpoints, viewpoints, and methods of the Party's innovative theories. Marxist standpoints, viewpoints, and methods are the essential skills for doing work well. Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era adheres to and develops dialectical materialism and historical materialism, and has made a new expression of the times for Marxist standpoints, viewpoints, and methods. The "Six Musts" are an important manifestation of the standpoints, viewpoints, and methods of this thought, providing us with a sharp weapon for understanding and transforming the world. Only by accurately grasping the standpoints, viewpoints, and methods of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era can we better comprehend the essence and key points of this thought, and can we truly achieve the integration of learning, thinking, and application and the unity of knowledge, belief, and action. We must consciously use the standpoints, viewpoints, and methods of the Party's innovative theories to observe and analyze the world, grasp the essence of things, recognize the general trend of development, and improve methods of thinking, so that all work advances in the correct direction and according to objective laws.
(3) Deeply comprehend the realm and feelings contained in the Party's innovative theories. Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era not only contains the Party's important thoughts on governing the country, but also runs through the political character, value pursuits, spiritual realm, and style and integrity of Chinese Communists, shining with the spiritual demeanor and personality strength of General Secretary Xi Jinping, its principal founder. For example, this thought adheres to the principle that the country is the people and the people are the country, manifesting the spirit of dedication and feelings for the people of "I will have no self, and live up to the people"; for example, this thought adheres to worrying before the world worries and rejoicing after the world rejoices, manifesting the sense of mission, responsibility, and political character of taking the world as one's own responsibility and dedicating oneself to the Party and the country; for example, this thought adheres to upholding great justice, pursuing great righteousness, and seeking the greater self, manifesting the realm and pattern of selfless dedication and fearless integrity. This thought connects the essence of Marxist thought with the essence of China's excellent traditional culture, and integrates it with the common values that the people use daily without being aware of them, carrying forward the tradition that the Chinese nation has always emphasized of "taking the rectification of the mind as the foundation and self-cultivation as the basis," emphasizing that Communists must rectify their minds and understand the Way, cherish virtue and be self-respecting, temper the political character of loyalty to the Party, establish the family-country feelings of living up to the people, pursue a noble and pure ideological realm, and selflessly dedicate themselves to the cause of the Party and the people. Using the Party's innovative theories to unite hearts and forge souls requires not only grasping the standpoints, viewpoints, and methods running through them, but also comprehending the realm and feelings contained in them, consciously transforming the subjective world while transforming the objective world, firming up the foundation of ideals, tempering political character, and solving the master-switch problem of worldview, outlook on life, and values.
III. Comprehensively Implement the Tasks of Using the Party's Innovative Theories to Unite Hearts and Forge Souls
The Decision puts forward various key tasks for using the Party's innovative theories to unite hearts and forge souls in terms of learning and education, research and interpretation, and practical application. We must comprehensively understand and grasp them, seriously implement them, and promote the whole Party to use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to unify thinking, unify will, and unify action.
(1) Read the original works, study the original texts, and comprehend the principles. The most effective way to learn theory is to read the original works, study the original texts, and comprehend the principles. Only by returning to General Secretary Xi Jinping's original works and original texts, reading them in full and sentence by sentence, can we accurately grasp the truth connotation and essential points of the thought from the context of the chapters, and can we comprehend General Secretary Xi Jinping's realm, feelings, and spiritual strength from between the lines, thereby gaining enlightenment and being inspired. Reading the original works, studying the original texts, and comprehending the principles starts with reading, and the focus is on comprehension. We must always maintain a strong interest in theory, establish lofty theoretical pursuits, read through works such as "Selected Readings of Xi Jinping's Works," "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China," and special selected works of General Secretary Xi Jinping, calm down to read intensively, deeply, and repeatedly, persist unremittingly and consistently, and truly achieve a love of learning and joy in learning. We must adhere to independent thinking, think while reading, go deeper and into the heart, and achieve comprehending the true meaning and internalizing it in the mind. Learning the Party's theory is the obligation of Party members stipulated in the Party Constitution. Every Communist must fulfill this obligation, and regard reading the original works, studying the original texts, and comprehending the principles as a conscious spiritual pursuit and a self-disciplined way of self-cultivation, using the original works and classics to guide thinking, temper Party spirit, guide action, and cultivate ability. Senior Party cadres must demand of themselves according to the standards of Marxist statesmen, take the lead in studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, believe in it for life, master it proficiently, and be good at applying it.
(2) Enrich the methods of theoretical learning and education. Strengthen the building of a Marxist learning-oriented political party, deeply implement the learning and education plan for the Party's innovative theories, and create a strong atmosphere in the whole Party of being good at learning and courageous in practice. Enrich the resources for theoretical learning and education, optimize the sequence and order of learning and education, optimize the paths and methods of learning and education by level and category, enhance the pertinence and effectiveness of learning, and promote the Party's innovative theories to enter the depths of the minds and hearts of Party members and cadres more silently and subtly. Adhere to combining centralized education with regular education, give full play to the role of the institutional mechanisms for the normalization and long-term effectiveness of the successive intra-Party centralized education campaigns since the 18th National Congress of the Party, and promote learning and education to go deeper and become more practical. Highlight the position of the Party's innovative theories as the main course in the education and training of Party members and cadres, and improve the education and training mechanisms for Party members and cadres. Adhere to and improve the "First Agenda Item" system, and promptly follow up on the study of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speeches and instructions and directives. Innovate and improve learning systems, improve learning methods, carry out in-depth learning discussions and interactive exchanges in connection with reality, and improve the quality of theoretical learning center group learning of Party committees (Party groups) and theoretical learning of primary-level Party organizations. We must promptly understand and grasp the learning needs and learning habits of Party members and cadres under Internet conditions, fully use Internet means and artificial intelligence technology, coordinate online and offline learning, and enhance the attractiveness and cohesion of theoretical learning. We must also pay attention to combining the study of the Party's innovative theories with the study of the basic principles of Marxism, the study of the classics of China's excellent traditional culture, and the study of Party history and national history, continuously enhancing the understanding and comprehension of the Party's innovative theories.
(3) Carry forward the Marxist style of study. Practicality is a distinctive feature of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. This thought comes from practice and guides practice, was founded in answering the questions of China, the questions of the world, the questions of the people, and the questions of the times, and has been continuously enriched and developed in the great practice of the new era. We must carry forward the Marxist style of study of linking theory with practice, closely link with the major theoretical and practical issues in comprehensively advancing the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization, link with the reality of the local region, department, and unit and with personal thinking and work reality, consciously deepen theoretical learning, and avoid empty talk and impractical theorizing. We must learn with problems in mind, regard studying and solving problems as the focus of learning, focus on the key and deep-seated problems of high-quality development, the problems of urgent concern to the people, and the pressing problems facing Party building, seek direction, ideas, and methods from the Party's innovative theories, and enhance the ability to use the Party's innovative theories to analyze and solve practical problems. We must combine learning with investigation and research, establish and improve the mechanism for the integrated advancement of theoretical learning and investigation and research, guide Party members and cadres to go deep into the grassroots to summarize typical experiences in implementing the Party's innovative theories, continuously study new situations and solve new problems, and make the process of investigation a process of deepening the comprehension of the Party's innovative theories.
(4) Deepen systematic and theoretical research and interpretation. For theoretical arming to go deeper and become more practical, theoretical research must be deepened. We must follow academic laws, fully utilize the resources of various disciplines in philosophy and social sciences, work from the aspects of academic foundation, practical orientation, international perspective, and historical dimension, systematically elucidate the reasoning, principles, and philosophy of the Party's innovative theories, and transform them into knowledge discourse, academic theory, and research paradigms, leading the construction of an independent knowledge system for Chinese philosophy and social sciences. We must focus on the vivid practices evoked by the Party's innovative theories on the land of China, focus on the historic achievements and historic changes of the new era, focus on the changes unseen in a century in the world and the international ideological and cultural landscape, and focus on the broad perspective of the Party's theoretical development history, the history of Marxist development, the history of Chinese thought, and the history of human thought, fully elucidate the epoch-making significance of the Party's innovative theories, and clearly explain their practical foundation, truth connotation, theoretical contribution, and historical status. We must innovatively implement the Marxist Theory Research and Development Project, give full play to the role of platforms such as research institutions for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, national key Marxist schools, national high-end think tanks, and the National Social Science Fund, carry out multidisciplinary and cross-field collaborative research, guide first-class scholars and outstanding young scholars from various disciplines to devote themselves to systematic and theoretical research and interpretation, and support high-quality theoretical arming with high-level research results.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 杨 昊 张 驰
"Pomegranate flowers bloom red and bright, seeds clasped tight never apart..." In Daluo Township, Menghai County, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, Yu Nankan, a member of the "Blang Singing" theoretical policy propaganda volunteer service team, sang a tune, and villagers clapped along to the rhythm, raising their hands to dance, smiles spreading across every face.
In March 2025, during an inspection tour of Yunnan, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that Yunnan is home to many ethnic groups, and that efforts must be strengthened to govern border ethnic regions, broaden the practical pathways for all-round integration of all ethnic groups, deepen the new era's action to prosper border areas and enrich the people, and earnestly safeguard ethnic unity and border stability.
In recent years, Yunnan has taken fostering a sense of community for the Chinese nation as its main thread, continuously strengthening governance of border ethnic regions. The flower of ethnic unity and progress has bloomed ever more brilliantly, and the happiness index of people of all ethnic groups has kept rising.
Building a Shared Spiritual Home for the Chinese Nation
In the ancient city of Lijiang, Yunnan, walking forward along the blue-stone road, crossing the ceremonial gate, passing through the winding corridors, the Wanjuan Tower with its upturned eaves and soaring corners stands solemn and unsophisticated.
He Yulong, a docent at the Lijiang Ancient City Museum (Mu Mansion), said as he walked: "The doors and windows feature traditional carvings of the Naxi and Bai ethnic groups, and the mansion also has crafts such as the gilded roof. Isn't it like a 'three-dimensional textbook'?"
He Yuling, the museum's director, introduced that in recent years the museum has developed distinctive on-site study courses, integrated patriotic education and historical-cultural education into its tours, and launched ethnic culture experience routes, further safeguarding the Mu Mansion as a cultural landmark.
In the Ethnic Unity Park of Ning'er Hani and Yi Autonomous County, Pu'er City, Yunnan, volunteer docent Fang Caibing was telling visitors the story of the Ethnic Unity Oath Monument: "We must pass it down from generation to generation, carving a sense of community for the Chinese nation into our hearts."
To protect the Ethnic Unity Oath Monument, the Standing Committee of the Ning'er County People's Congress issued cultural protection and inheritance regulations, providing legal safeguards for building a shared spiritual home for the Chinese nation. At present, Yunnan has 10 provincial-level local regulations on ethnic work currently in effect, 37 autonomous regulations, and 180 separate regulations.
In recent years, Yunnan has regularly carried out publicity activities on fostering a sense of community for the Chinese nation, and the construction of the "Prospering Yunnan, Nourishing the Border New Era Civilization Practice Belt" has continued to advance — in Tengchong City, Baoshan, theoretical propaganda has moved to the fireside and into courtyards; in Funing County, Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, four intangible cultural heritage inheritance service teams have brought Poya Song Books into schools and villages; in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, the Hekou National Gate New Era Civilization Practice Center has become a shared spiritual home for border residents...
Broadening the Practical Pathways for All-Round Integration of All Ethnic Groups
"Everyone, join in!" Entering Yu'er Garden in Yincang Community, Dali Ancient City, Dali City, the Jinhua Dance Team formed a circle, dancing to the music. Yincang Community is home to residents of 16 ethnic groups. The dance team was spontaneously organized by residents and has been active for more than eight consecutive years.
Living in the same courtyard, as close as one family. Yunnan has formulated the "Guidelines for Building 'Harmonious and Beautiful One-Family' Inter-embedded Communities," promoting all-round integration of people of all ethnic groups in spatial, cultural, economic, social, and psychological dimensions.
In Wanjing Community, Gadong Subdistrict, Jinghong City, Xishuangbanna Prefecture, more than 20,000 residents span 28 ethnic groups, with sojourning "migratory birds" accounting for about 85 percent. Through platforms such as the "Residents' Deliberation Room," the community promotes communication and consultation among residents and encourages sojourning residents to participate in grassroots governance.
During the Torch Festival, Zixi Yi Village in Chuxiong City, Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, laid out a long-street banquet, with bitter buckwheat cakes, mutton soup pots, and Yi family rice wine served in turn; during the summer retreat season, all 11 counties (cities, districts) of Zhaotong each held food culture banquets, with residents and tourists sharing warm fellowship... Yunnan has continued to build the "Sojourning in Yunnan" brand, established 1,000 demonstration villages for ethnic village tourism upgrading, cumulatively supported the construction of 501 "Harmonious and Beautiful One-Family" inter-embedded communities, and continuously broadened the practical pathways for all-round integration of all ethnic groups.
Solidly Advancing Common Prosperity for All Ethnic Groups
At dawn, at the lower station of Spruce Meadow in the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain scenic area, Mao Xuehua, a Yi ethnic employee of Lijiang Yangyanghong Tourism Service Co., Ltd., was inspecting sightseeing vehicles. Her home is right next door in Jiazi Community. "Now I can work close to home, and life gets better every day," Mao Xuehua said.
This benefits from the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain scenic area's policy of tourism feeding back into agriculture. Today, the vast majority of Yangyanghong Company's employees are local residents, with ethnic minority staff accounting for 80 percent. "Everyone goes to work together, eats together, and working together with one heart and mind (齐心协力, qi xin xie li - "together, heart, cooperate, strength") to make life better — that's how hearts grow closer," said He Yunfeng, the company's Party branch secretary.
Economies are linked, emotions are fused, and cultures are more connected. In Lancang Lahu Autonomous County, Pu'er City, on Jingmai Mountain, Xianjin, a Dai ethnic young woman born after 2000, was livestreaming about tea from a tea house in the ancient village of Nuo Gan.
In September 2023, the "Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of the Jingmai Mountain in Pu'er" was successfully inscribed on the World Heritage List, becoming the world's first tea-themed World Cultural Heritage site. Seizing the opportunity, Xianjin used short videos and livestreaming platforms to put the ancient tea mountain on the modern "fast track." She tells netizens about the development path of forest-tea symbiosis, and also about the fine traditions of interaction among the ethnic groups on the mountain.
In recent years, Yunnan has vigorously developed the resource economy, park economy, and port economy, promoted the creation of "one county, one industry" demonstration counties, and ethnic unity and progress demonstration townships and villages have basically formed a characteristic industrial development model of "one village, one product; one township, one industry." Highland specialty agricultural products such as fresh-cut flowers, tea, coffee, macadamia nuts, and avocados have come out of the mountains.
Prosperity for border areas and enrichment of the people, with the endogenous driving force for strengthening the border and consolidating defense continuously stimulated. Yunnan has implemented six projects — industry prospering the border, livelihood benefiting the border, environment beautifying the border, unity harmonizing the border, defense consolidation stabilizing the border, and Party building strengthening the border — and accelerated the construction of "workshops at the doorstep." As of the end of 2025, all 374 border administrative villages in Yunnan had been built into border happiness villages, and the per capita disposable income of rural permanent residents in border villages exceeded 24,000 yuan.
From the foot of the snow mountains to the depths of the tea mountains, from border villages to urban communities, the sons and daughters of all ethnic groups in Yunnan are united in struggle, continuously gathering the mighty force of working together with one heart to build the Chinese Dream.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 马跃峰 程 焕
Verdant tea gardens spread across the slopes, extending from the mountaintop to the foot of the hills; the clang of hammers rings out from silver-ornament shops, the faint fragrance of pine resin wafts through batik workshops, and traditional handicraft workshops bustle with activity; the laughter of tourists mingles with the gurgle of streams, echoing through the mountain village... Deep in the heart of the Miao Mountains, Danzhai County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, surges with vigorous vitality.
Danzhai County was once a key county for national poverty alleviation and development, paired with targeted assistance from the National Audit Office. In April 2019, the entire county was lifted out of poverty. Shedding the poverty label is not the finish line, but the starting point of a new life and new struggle. Over the past seven-plus years, Danzhai County has built on its own distinctive resource endowments and explored a path of comprehensive rural revitalization.
Market-oriented, full-chain development of the tea industry
Arriving at Mazhai Village, Longquan Town, Danzhai County, the fragrance of tea greets the nose. In the processing workshop, the procedures of withering, rolling, fermentation, and drying are fully controllable throughout, transforming fresh leaves into dark, glossy black tea.
This scene was hard to imagine in earlier years. Wu Rendong, a 28-year-old returning entrepreneur, recalls that his parents' tea-making tools were crude—an iron wok and a bundle of firewood—and the tea they sold did not even have packaging.
With high altitude, abundant cloud and mist, and soil rich in trace elements such as selenium and zinc, the natural conditions are possessing unique and exceptional natural advantages (得天独厚, de tian du hou - "obtain, heaven, uniquely, thick"). Danzhai County's tea industry got an early start, being selected as a national key tea-producing county as early as 2009. Regrettably, with outdated techniques, low output, and weak brands, the local tea industry long developed in a low-efficiency, extensive manner.
Industrial revitalization is the most important part of something (重中之重, zhong zhong zhi zhong - "middle, middle, particle, middle") of comprehensive rural revitalization. In 2018, seizing the opportunity of paired assistance, the assistance working group actively connected with quality market resources and coordinated efforts to build a poverty-alleviation tea garden in Danzhai County. After the project landed, agricultural technical experts took up permanent residence in the fields to teach and provide hands-on guidance, driving the county-wide restructuring of the industrial chain: contiguous construction of standardized tea gardens, introduction of deep-processing production lines, and development of smart workshops. Leveraging east-west collaboration funds, a 25,000-mu smart tea garden was built in Mazhai Village, integrating digital modules to enable intelligent pest and disease prevention and control, precise water and fertilizer management, and full traceability of products.
In 2023, Wu Rendong returned to his hometown to start a business, no longer limited to self-production and self-sale, but market-oriented, implementing the "Adopt One Mu of Tea Garden · Supporting Rural Revitalization" project. "Even a single ridge of land can be adopted. After customers receive the fresh tea, they can scan a QR code to view the entire process of picking and processing in their exclusive tea garden in real time." Today, Wu Rendong's enterprise has annual sales exceeding 6 million yuan, driving income growth for more than 900 fellow villagers.
The changes in Mazhai Village are a microcosm of the county-wide tea industry transformation: Danzhai County's tea garden area has reached 121,900 mu, nurturing 57 tea enterprises and 28 cooperatives; in 2025, the total output value of tea exceeded 1.2 billion yuan, covering 68 villages in 6 townships and benefiting 38,000 people. "The regional public brand 'Danzhai Cloud Selenium Tea' has established itself, bidding farewell to the extensive development of small workshops," said Long Yongsheng, director of the Danzhai County Tea Industry Development Center.
With tea as the driver, Danzhai County has built a "one primary, two supplementary" characteristic industrial system. The blueberry planting area exceeds 30,000 mu, and Chinese medicinal herbs reach 96,900 mu; derivative products such as tea cuisine, blueberry wine, and traditional Chinese medicine wellness have emerged, with the agricultural product processing conversion rate rising from 18.4% in 2018 to 67.1% in 2025.
Integration breaks boundaries, culture and ecology both monetized
Today, Kala Village in Longquan Town is having a great reputation far and wide (声名在外, sheng ming zai wai - "sound, name, at, outside") for its cultural tourism. Ascending the blue stone steps, passing through several gates, silver-ornament shops, batik workshops, and Miao embroidery stores line up one after another.
Ethnic minority groups account for 90% of Danzhai County's population, with 31 national and provincial-level intangible cultural heritage items, as well as 32 national-level traditional villages and Chinese ethnic minority characteristic villages. How can the "soft power" of ethnic culture be transformed into the "hard support" of comprehensive rural revitalization?
Integration is a new attempt.
With support from assistance funds, Wang Guochun, a representative inheritor of the provincial-level intangible cultural heritage Miao silver ornament forging technique, came to Kala Village, revitalized 40 abandoned stilted buildings, and built the "Silversmith Village" intangible cultural heritage agglomeration platform. "Ethnic culture is not only spiritual wealth, but also a convertible resource." Driven by Wang Guochun, the "Silversmith Village" has attracted dozens of intangible cultural heritage resources to settle in, integrating production, display, experience, and consumption in one place, receiving 200,000 visitors annually and radiating a comprehensive output value of over 10 million yuan. Zhao Yu, the first secretary stationed in the village, remarked with emotion: "Villagers' per capita annual income has increased by more than 5,000 yuan. Deep integration has made culture seen and remembered."
Ethnic culture is colorful and varied (多姿多彩, duo zi duo cai - "many, posture, many, color"), and the natural ecology is uniquely distinctive. Each village in Danzhai County leverages its own advantages to explore differentiated development paths.
Shiqiao Village, Nangao Township, Danzhai County, features spectacular karst landforms and dense ancient fossil deposits. Two years ago, Jin Weilong, who came from Zhejiang, transferred more than 20 mu of riverside wasteland to build the "Dream Butterfly Garden." Here, ancient papermaking is combined with geological study, and immersive courses such as handmade crafts, fossil excavation, and wilderness camping have attracted attention, with short-video traffic accounting for 90% of visitor flow. As tourists increased, Shiqiao Village successively built a geological study base, themed guesthouses, and a wilderness campsite. The industrial chain of food, lodging, tourism, and study has gradually taken shape, with more than 30 households achieving employment at their doorstep.
By optimizing the integration approach, Danzhai County's distinctive resources have radiated new brilliance, accelerating their transformation into economic development advantages. From January to August this year, Danzhai County received 2.3335 million domestic tourists, a year-on-year increase of 12.98%, making the cultural tourism industry a pillar industry of the county.
Endogenous drive, the native land releases its potential
By the shore of East Lake in Danzhai County's urban area, the Cloud Town is built along the water. Hundreds of residential buildings blend with the mountains, with intangible cultural heritage courtyards, boutique inns, cinemas, and theaters having everything one needs (一应俱全, yi ying ju quan - "one, should, all, complete"), where antiquity and modernity converge.
This 4A-level scenic area, opened in July 2017, rose rapidly thanks to county-wide assistance from a caring enterprise, and within just half a year of opening, it ranked among the top single scenic areas in Guizhou Province by visitor numbers. After the transition period ended, operational rights were gradually handed over to the local government.
Facing periodic fluctuations in visitor numbers, Guizhou Danzhai Cloud Town Cultural Tourism Co., Ltd., after taking over the town, has been searching for ways to solve the problem. "We cannot rely solely on throwing money at it; we have to retain people through operations," said Zhang Kun, general manager of the company. After repositioning, the company linked up with surrounding villages and study bases, enriching the experience with intangible cultural heritage performances, themed night tours, and residential wellness, with "slow down, stay longer, settle in" becoming the new operational philosophy.
Upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, the local operations team has explored and refined its approach, and the cultural depth and quality of life of Cloud Town have become increasingly prominent. Since its opening, the town has cumulatively received over 40 million visitors.
Its own efforts cannot be separated from sustained assistance. Since 2016, the National Audit Office has successively dispatched five rounds of cadres to take root in Danzhai, coordinating various assistance resources and breaking through bottlenecks one by one in key areas such as infrastructure, characteristic industries, and the living environment. Since poverty alleviation, assistance units have trained more than 2,000 grassroots cadres, industry leaders, and technical experts in Danzhai. The transformation from "external blood transfusion" to "self-hematopoiesis"—this local force that cannot be taken away—is precisely the greatest confidence for normalized assistance.
Starting this year, normalized assistance has been incorporated into the overall implementation of the comprehensive rural revitalization strategy. Standing at a new starting point, Danzhai County places greater emphasis on organically combining external resource support with internal capacity building, transforming from "passively receiving aid" to "actively developing."
A deeper transformation lies in people's hearts. Jiashi Village, Paidiao Township, Danzhai County, was once a deeply impoverished village, and now it ranks among the county's first batch of rural revitalization demonstration villages. Before the Spring Festival this year, 16 Party members working away from home jointly wrote a letter to the village Party branch, expressing their hope to return and jointly pursue development. "This trust is weighty, showing that our fellow villagers have completely shed the ideological burden of 'waiting, relying, and demanding.'" Speaking of this joint letter, Wang Mingke, secretary of the village Party branch, said.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 曲哲涵
He who unites the multitudes of the world does so through wealth; he who manages the wealth of the world does so through law.
Strengthening financial and accounting supervision is not only an important safeguard for strict financial and economic discipline, but also an inherent requirement of advancing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has issued important instructions and directives on strengthening financial and accounting supervision on multiple occasions, emphasizing that "Party committees at all levels, especially principal responsible comrades, must assume political responsibility, coordinate and manage fiscal, taxation, auditing and other work in an integrated manner, strictly enforce financial and economic discipline, and manage and use funds from all sources well."
In 2023, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on Further Strengthening Financial and Accounting Supervision Work, providing top-level design for the construction of the financial and accounting supervision system.
All regions and departments have conscientiously implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and directives, and in accordance with the requirements of the Opinions, have solidly carried out special campaigns for financial and accounting supervision, promoting governance through actual cases (以案促治, yi an cu zhi - "use, cases, promote, governance") and promoting rectification through investigation, achieving notable results.
Major and important cases are investigated to the end, and verification, rectification, and joint efforts are advanced in tandem
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "With regard to the clues to problems reported and transferred by auditing departments, investigation and handling must never be allowed to end without a conclusion."
In 2023, a clue reported by the auditing department brought to light a major case in Anxiang County, Hunan, involving the fraudulent acquisition and misappropriation of agricultural subsidy funds benefiting farmers. Relevant entities at the county and township levels, colluding with grassroots units and financial institutions, engaged in long-term fraud and deception, intercepting and arbitrarily misappropriating central government funds intended to benefit farmers at every level. As subsidies were taking advantage of every opportunity to extract profit (雁过拔毛, yan guo ba mao - "wild goose, pass, pluck, hair") through the layers of transfer, the benefits of the pro-farmer policies failed to reach the pockets of grain-growing households, and the vital interests of the masses were seriously infringed upon.
The financial departments took immediate action, working together with disciplinary inspection and supervision organs to conduct investigating thoroughly and deeply (深挖彻查, shen wa che cha - "deep, dig, thorough, investigate") and strictly pursue accountability, seriously handling those responsible. At the same time, they optimized and improved the "one-card" issuance mechanism for agricultural subsidy funds, opening up the entire chain of fund verification, issuance, and supervision, and installing a "safety valve" of full-process supervision for agricultural subsidy funds.
In 2024, a penalty notice shook China's certified public accountant industry. The Ministry of Finance, together with the China Securities Regulatory Commission, imposed penalties on PricewaterhouseCoopers Zhongtian Certified Public Accountants LLP: confiscation of illegal gains and fines totaling 441 million yuan, along with a warning, suspension of business operations for 6 months, and revocation of its Guangzhou branch. The firm had serious illegal problems in the audit project of Evergrande Real Estate, disrupting market order and severely damaging the credibility of the industry as the "gatekeeper" of the market economy.
A penalty notice is not the end of supervision. Cases of waste and scrap recycling enterprises exploiting fiscal reward and subsidy policies to arbitrage have been investigated and dealt with, and the full-chain review mechanism for reward and subsidy funds has been improved; a series of cases of illegal tax rebates and fees in investment attraction have been investigated and dealt with, with negative list management implemented to block "policy depressions" at the source; the supervision mechanism for the practice quality of certified public accountants has been continuously improved, and a bad apple or person who spoils the whole group (害群之马, hai qun zhi ma - "harm, group, of, horse") has been resolutely eliminated... Over the past three years, the special campaign for financial and accounting supervision has dealt heavy blows in investigating major and important cases, using individual cases to promote the governance of similar cases and filling institutional shortcomings.
Strictly enforce financial and economic discipline, and improve the supervision system
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "We must continue to improve institutions and perfect the system, so that the supervision system fits the Party's leadership system, integrates into the national governance system, and better transforms institutional advantages into governance effectiveness."
Over the past three years, the special campaign for financial and accounting supervision has been fully rolled out in a posture of "reaching the edges horizontally and reaching the bottom vertically," weaving a dense supervision network and consolidating the foundation for development.
In the summer of 2023, an inspection team sent by the Ministry of Finance to a certain ministry or commission carefully unraveled the clues, following the timeline of procurement contracts and noticing a deliberately "timed" operation: on the very last day of the contract's validity period, this department suddenly added a printing plan of 352 million yuan, attempting to bypass bidding and tendering procedures through a "last-minute" operation...
In inspections of 10 central departments, "upper-lower linkage" and "carrying the pole straight to the bottom" were routine operations, and problems such as illegal issuance of subsidies and allowances, and allocation of assets exceeding budgets, standards, and plans were investigated and dealt with one by one.
In the spring of 2026, in Yijing Town, Changfeng County, Anhui Province, the long-silted irrigation canal was finally dredged. Gurgling clear water flowed into the wheat fields, adding more guarantee to a good harvest.
A canal of clear water reflects the sincere original aspiration of financial and accounting supervision in safeguarding people's livelihood. In the supervision and inspection of the use and management of funds for high-standard farmland construction, inspection teams went deep into the fields to observe the actual situation, entered farmhouse courtyards to listen to the truth, and problems such as misappropriation and diversion of funds and passing off inferior goods as high quality (以次充好, yi ci chong hao - "use, inferior, substitute, good") in project construction were leaving no place to hide or no way to escape detection (无所遁形, wu suo dun xing - "not, have, place, hide, form"), while problems such as idle and damaged facilities were resolved in a timely manner.
Local inspections directly targeted the crux of the problems and taking decisive and tough action to deal with problems (动真碰硬, dong zhen peng ying - "move, real, bump, hard"). The "lids" on problems such as new hidden debt, unreal debt resolution, and leakage and loss of funds for affordable housing projects were all lifted.
Where problems point, supervision follows. All regions and departments have used the results of financial and accounting supervision inspections as an important basis for plugging loopholes and improving management, cumulatively formulating and revising more than 12,000 institutional documents. All localities have strictly supervised the funds for high-standard farmland construction, established and improved long-term mechanisms for preventing and resolving local government debt risks, and relied on penetrating supervision to regulate the use of various special funds... The "problem list" exposes the crux of the problems, the "rectification list" lands with tangible results, and the "institutional list" strengthening the foundation and basic elements (固本培元, gu ben pei yuan - "solidify, root, cultivate, origin"), with the closed-loop management mechanism continuously improving and the defense line of financial and economic discipline being built ever stronger.
Driven by the special campaign, the reach of financial and accounting supervision has now vertically penetrated central departments and county and township grassroots levels, and horizontally covered key areas of financial and economic operations such as budget management, government procurement, asset management, and debt risk management. The "five-in-one" supervision system—with financial departments exercising primary supervision, relevant departments supervising according to their responsibilities, various units conducting internal supervision, intermediary institutions conducting practice supervision, and industry associations conducting self-discipline supervision—has been continuously improved and perfected in practice, effectively guaranteeing the implementation of national macro policies.
Injecting supervisory momentum into full and rigorous self-governance of the Party and the integrated advancement of "not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt"
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "We must raise political positioning, promote the standardized exercise of power by managing the 'money bag' and the 'account book,' promptly calibrate and correct deviations, and strictly enforce financial and economic discipline."
In 2024, the Ministry of Finance coordinated the supervision and inspection of the use and management of nutrition and dietary subsidy funds with the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission's "special rectification of prominent problems in food safety and dietary fund management in primary and secondary school cafeterias." After the inspection team, together with local disciplinary inspection and supervision organs, locked onto clues to problems, all parties acted swiftly. Within 5 days, the local disciplinary inspection and supervision organ had taken lien measures against one person, and another two were criminally detained according to law, forming a strong deterrent.
Over the past three years, financial and accounting supervision cadres, as "professional sappers," have coordinated and linked up with disciplinary inspection and supervision organs to precisely "clear mines."
The Ministry of Finance has established and improved a coordination mechanism between financial and accounting supervision and intra-Party supervision, reporting more than 1,600 items of problem clues, typical cases, and supervision data information to the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission, the Central Inspection Office, and the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee; selected professional backbone personnel have captured subtle traces from fund trajectories and bill flows, time and again following clues to tear open the openings of problems.
Local explorations and practices have also been highly effective. Shandong Province has promoted the coordination and linkage between financial departments and disciplinary inspection and supervision departments, doing a good job of policy alignment, information sharing, and clue transfer; Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, has deepened the "simultaneous deployment, simultaneous inspection, simultaneous analysis and judgment, simultaneous reporting, and simultaneous rectification" of financial and accounting supervision and inspection supervision...
"Adhere to combining precise problem discovery with effective problem resolution, keep the sharp sword of financial and accounting supervision always hanging high, and safeguard the implementation of the Party Central Committee's major decisions and deployments." A relevant responsible comrade of the Ministry of Finance stated.
Rectifying financial and economic order with thunderous measures, safeguarding economic security with institutional rigidity—what is consolidated is the foundation for development, and what is protected is the well-being of the people's livelihood.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 富子梅
The "International Forum on Mutual Learning Among Civilizations 2026" was held in Macao from November 9 to 10. Government department representatives, international organization representatives, experts, and scholars from more than 20 countries and regions attended the forum, delivering nearly 40 keynote speeches, civilization dialogues, campus sharing sessions, and other activities, showcasing the distinctive features of cross-disciplinary expert convergence, high-level international exchange, and high-end dialogue among civilizations.
Actively Building a Contributor to Contemporary Civilizational Dialogue
The forum, themed "Mutual Learning Among Civilizations and Inheritance and Development," extended into sub-forums including "Civilizational Dialogue Across Mountains and Seas," "Civilizational Connections Between China and Portuguese-Speaking Countries," and "The Light of Civilization in the Age of AI."
"Using Macao as a platform for dialogue on mutual learning among civilizations has deep historical roots." Sam Hou Fai, Chief Executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region, stated that Macao is an important node on the Maritime Silk Road, where cultures of different regions, faiths, and traditions coexist harmoniously. From world cultural heritage sites to living intangible cultural heritage, from Western-style historic churches to Lingnan traditional architecture, all exemplify the trait of civilizations nourishing one another through encounter. As a "precise connector" between China and Portuguese-speaking countries, Macao also continuously promotes two-way cultural dialogue, actively building itself into a contributor to contemporary civilizational dialogue.
Hugh Bowden, Professor in the Department of Classics, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at King's College London, United Kingdom, said that the best way for different civilizations to avoid conflict and promote development is through dialogue, exchange, and mutual understanding.
"Macao's role is two-way connectivity." Zheng Yongnian, Dean of the School of Public Policy at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), stated that on the foundation of the Chinese civilization as its main body, Macao has absorbed and transformed foreign civilizations with an open and inclusive mindset, forming a unique cultural character of Sino-Western fusion. "Macao's practice provides an important reference for mutual learning among civilizations and inheritance and development," Zheng Yongnian said.
"Holding a civilizational dialogue themed 'Civilizational Inheritance and Development, Guardianship of Chinese Heritage, and Continuation of Local Culture and Humanity' in front of the historic St. Dominic's Theatre, a building over a century old, is itself a vivid story of voices from different civilizations hearing one another and understanding each other," said Mu Xinxin, Executive Vice President of the Macao Federation of Cultural and Arts Associations.
Taiwanese writer Yang Du, Hong Kong scholar Cheng Pei-kai, and Mu Xinxin engaged in discussions on the continuation of civilizations. Yang Du believes that the key to civilizational continuation lies in the steadfast preservation of the original humanistic aspiration and in mastering various aspects of knowledge or skills through integration (融会贯通, rong hui guan tong - "melt, combine, penetrate, connect") and inclusiveness in everyday life. Cheng Pei-kai, based on the Greater Bay Area, elaborated on the creative transformation and innovative development of fine traditional Chinese culture.
Let Technological Innovation Uphold the Original Humanistic Aspiration
At present, AI (artificial intelligence) is rapidly integrating into and changing people's work and daily lives. How to guide technology to serve human progress, let technological innovation uphold the original humanistic aspiration, and empower the convergence rather than confrontation of civilizations has become a new topic.
"Young people wearing AR (augmented reality) glasses can see the original appearance of the Ruins of St. Paul's, and sitting in a simulated racing car, they can immediately experience the fast speed of the Guia Circuit." Leong Wai Kun, Director of the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao SAR Government, cited examples, stating that Macao is actively using digital technology to support the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage. Through digital displays and technological innovation in cultural resources, precious history and culture are brought into public life, better inspiring the city's future.
Wu Qiong, Dean of the Academy of Arts & Design at Tsinghua University and Director of the Tsinghua University Art and Science Research Center, shared insights on the theme "Design Innovation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence." She stated that design should uphold a people-centered foundation, safeguard cultural diversity through interdisciplinary innovation, and contribute to exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations.
"The uncertainty and technological challenges brought by the artificial intelligence revolution far exceed those of the previous three industrial revolutions. This is both a new driving force for mutual learning among civilizations and an urgent demand for global collaborative governance," said Zhu Feng, Professor at the School of International Relations, Nanjing University. He believes that the international community should abandon governance approaches of each acting on its own, base itself on multilateralism, conduct dialogue and consultation, build consensus on global governance, jointly manage the various uncertainties in the development of artificial intelligence, transform technological dividends into development momentum for mutual learning among civilizations, and enable artificial intelligence to serve the common well-being of all humanity.
Tsinghua University Professor Shi Anbin stated that mutual learning among civilizations is not one-way output but global co-creation. The "digital-intelligent Chinese wave," represented by online literature, short dramas, online games, and the like, is relying on open-source technology, localized customization, and global co-creation pathways to break out of the traditional model of one-way content output and promote the building of a fairer new order for cross-cultural communication.
Promoting the Harmonious Coexistence of the World's Diverse Civilizations
"Having been in Macao for less than 24 hours, I see a vibrant, modern city where European-style buildings and distinctive street charm blend with Chinese history and culture. It is very charming, and I look forward to exploring its mysteries," Hugh Bowden said.
Outside the venue, the welcome banquet carefully presented by the organizers was arranged outdoors at the Taipa Houses–Ecosystem Wetland Park in Macao. The digital human "Kiki" greeted guests, and intelligent robots performed tai chi and song-and-dance routines, embodying the innovative vitality of the fusion of technology and humanity. Accompanied by music played by the Macao Chinese Orchestra, guests enjoyed the charm of Portuguese folk dance, the artistry of Chinese martial arts and Cantonese opera's singing, recitation, acting, and acrobatics, savored the flavors of Cantonese and Portuguese cuisine, and experienced the unique allure of Macao's multicultural fusion.
The forum yielded fruitful results. At the closing ceremony, the new book "Window on Chinese Culture" Special Edition Collection was released, and the Publication Cooperation Agreement between the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government of the People's Republic of China and the São Paulo State University Publishing Foundation of Brazil was signed, attracting attention.
Lam Fat Kam, President of the Macao Cultural and Educational Publishing Association and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Macao Polytechnic University, introduced that the "Window on Chinese Culture" project was jointly launched by Macao Daily News and Portugal's Diário de Notícias in September 2023 to introduce Chinese culture to readers in Portuguese-speaking countries. Over the past three years, it has produced 160 Portuguese-language special editions and published nearly 1,470 pieces of content on overseas social media platforms. "The 'Window on Chinese Culture' Special Edition Collection released this time is published bilingually in Chinese and Portuguese, featuring a selection of approximately 150 Chinese and 150 Portuguese articles from past special editions," Lam Fat Kam said.
Leong Wai Kun introduced that this year coincides with the "China-Brazil Cultural Year." The Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao SAR Government and the São Paulo State University Publishing Foundation of Brazil have reached a cooperation intention to jointly carry out the "East Transmitted to the West: Macao Translation and Dissemination Platform Publishing Program," which will complete the translation, review, publication, and promotion of Portuguese translations of a total of 20 Chinese classic works in batches.
"Looking to the future, we are willing to walk side by side with friends from all walks of life around the world, using Macao as a bond and culture as a bridge, to continue running the International Forum on Mutual Learning Among Civilizations well, continuously deepen civilizational dialogue and people-to-people exchanges, and work together to promote the harmonious coexistence and common prosperity of the world's diverse civilizations," Leong Wai Kun stated.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王 珂
This year's "Double 11" shopping festival has presented quite a few new features: the consumption structure is shifting from being dominated by goods to giving equal weight to goods and services, consumers are paying more attention to the quality of goods and services, and consumer demand for green, smart, and healthy products continues to be released... A series of new changes reflect the new trend of transformation and upgrading in the consumer market.
From "placing emphasis on goods" to "dual-driven by goods and services"
Housekeeping and cleaning, car maintenance, physical examinations, moving services... This year's "Double 11," "stocking up on services" has become a popular choice for many consumers.
Data from JD.com shows that from 8:00 p.m. on October 12 to 6:00 p.m. on October 30, during the "Double 11" period, 150 million service orders had already been generated, with categories such as housekeeping and cleaning, home appliance cleaning, and car maintenance ranking at the top. Among them, overall sales revenue in the housekeeping services category grew by more than 240 percent year on year, sales revenue for daily cleaning and clothing and shoe care grew by more than 4 times year on year, and the number of moving service orders grew by 335 percent year on year.
A relevant official from the Ministry of Commerce said that in the first three quarters of this year, retail sales of services grew by 5.0 percent year on year, 4 percentage points higher than retail sales of goods. It is expected that in the coming period, the growth rate of goods consumption will maintain steady growth, while the growth rate of services consumption will still be faster than that of goods consumption.
"Double 11," which was once dominated by physical goods consumption, is accelerating its shift toward giving equal weight to goods consumption and services consumption. Among these, the popularity of local life services consumption is rising. Data from Meituan shows that during the "Double 11" period, the consumption side has shown a trend of shifting from owning goods to owning experiences.
Service innovation has also become an important lever for driving goods consumption. This year's "Double 11," JD.com upgraded its "delivery and installation in one" service, with categories such as televisions, washing machines, robot vacuum cleaners, and water purifiers achieving "delivered and installed upon arrival," and categories such as air conditioners, water heaters, and home decoration lighting achieving installation as quickly as 1 hour after arrival of the goods, effectively activating consumer demand for replacing and upgrading home appliances and home furnishings.
The deep integration of online and offline channels gives rise to new scenarios
The deep integration of online and offline channels (线上线下深度融合, xian shang xian xia shen du rong he - "online, offline, deeply, merge") and the accelerated innovation of retail formats have been fully reflected in this year's "Double 11." From the practice of omnichannel business models, to digital technology empowering the entire retail chain, to new retail formats, new models, and new scenarios in physical retail, the retail industry is accelerating the breaking down of channel boundaries, activating incremental consumption through innovative supply.
Experiential, scenario-based, and service-innovative consumption forms have become new highlights. Tmall is promoting the integrated online-offline operation of brands, connecting brand flagship stores with 12,000 Tmall Youpin stores nationwide, achieving "same goods, same price, same rights and interests" for new products. Consumers can browse online and then make appointments to experience products at nearby stores, and can also enjoy online platform discounts offline.
Apparel, food, and other categories are likewise showing a trend of two-way extension between online and offline. Original apparel brands on Taobao and Tmall are extending their experience to offline; fresh snack brands are focusing on short-shelf-life fresh food offline to strengthen the in-store experience, while online they adapt long-shelf-life products to expand into the national market, and their sales revenue grew rapidly during the "Double 11" period.
Digital technology has become a key driver of retail innovation. JD.com's AI (artificial intelligence) has been applied to more than 3,000 scenarios in retail, logistics, health, and other fields; JD.com's digital human JoyAvatar has served more than 100,000 merchants cumulatively, and as of 6:00 p.m. on October 30, it had cumulatively broadcast for more than 9 million hours, generating sales of more than 1.3 billion yuan; JD Logistics' "Super Brain" large model 3.0 has achieved a prediction accuracy rate of over 95 percent for parcel volume on warehouse-network express routes, and the adoption rate of AI-recommended optimal delivery routes has exceeded 90 percent.
Demand for green, smart, and healthy products continues to be released
This year's "Double 11," Token has been put on sale on multiple e-commerce platforms, and "computing power consumption" has become a new hotspot. Data from JD.com shows that during the "Double 11" period, the search volume for the keyword "Token" grew by more than 7 times month on month, and the platform launched an "AI Token Service Station" and an "AI Software Recharge Hall," achieving one-stop model selection and computing power recharge; during a 2-hour livestream from JD.com's 3C digital products procurement and sales livestream room on November 2, sales of large model Token package products grew by 20 times month on month. Tmall launched a Token recharge center, and on the first day of sales on October 20, the Token category achieved a 450 percent increase in transaction volume month on month; on November 2, a certain Tmall livestream room set a sales record of approximately 2 trillion Tokens in half an hour.
Home health consumption continues to heat up, with sales of health monitoring and wellness small home appliances rising. Data from Meituan Flash Purchase shows that during the "Double 11" period, sales of health monitoring devices such as blood glucose meters doubled year on year, and sales of wellness small home appliances such as abdominal massagers grew by 200 percent year on year.
In addition, during the "Double 11" period, products such as new energy vehicle supporting equipment, energy-saving home appliances, and low-carbon leisure products were also quite popular, becoming new growth points in the consumer market.
The series of new changes in this year's "Double 11" are a vivid footnote to the transformation, upgrading, and continued expansion of China's consumer market. The innovation of retail formats and the upgrading of consumer demand are forming a positive interaction, the potential of the consumer market will be further released, providing solid support for promoting high-quality development.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Wuxi, November 11) (Reporter Wang Hanchao) On November 9, the 2026 China International Intelligent Communication Forum, co-hosted by China Media Group and the People's Government of Jiangsu Province, was held in Wuxi, Jiangsu.
The forum launched the "Wuxi Initiative of the China International Intelligent Communication Forum." The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences released on site the "2026 Development Report on the International Intelligent Communication Capacity of Chinese Cities." The Cyberspace Administration of China and China Media Group jointly launched the themed micro-drama "A Smart and Beneficial Family." The forum also released and launched the cultural-tourism exploration program "World Youth Talk" and the documentary "Delicious · Taihu Pi," and held two thematic forums — the 2026 Digital Culture Going Global Forum and the AIGC Digital Intelligence Industry Forum — as well as activities including the "Wisdom Gathering in Wuxi · Jointly Creating a New Digital Culture Ecosystem" industrial closed-door dialogue, the "Wuxi Dialogue" on local international communication, and "Film Music · Wuxi Night."
It was noted that Jiangsu will leverage this platform to give full play to the advantages of intelligent communication, promote exchanging and learning from one another (交流互鉴, jiaoliu hujian - "exchange, mutually learn from each other") among civilizations, and, with content as the foundation, technology as the driver, and emotion as the bond, tell the splendid stories of joint development and win-win cooperation.
Return to TopHuinong e-Loan is a convenient and efficient online loan product specially tailored by the Agricultural Bank of China for the vast number of farmers.
With just a mobile phone, farmers can apply online, withdraw funds online, and repay online, allowing them to handle loan procedures staying at home without going out (足不出户, zu bu chu hu - "foot, not, go out, house").
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Return to TopBy: 解放日报记者 叶 宇 汕尾日报记者 陈剑虹
Fashion Design Refreshes the Display Window of Style
Qian Yawen, 37, is the founder of a children's outdoor apparel brand in Shanghai. In six years of entrepreneurship, her team has grown from three people to more than 30, and last year's revenue surpassed 40 million yuan.
Such stories of young entrepreneurship are not uncommon in Shanghai. About ten years ago, a cohort of young fashion design talents returned from overseas study and successively established brands in Shanghai. They drew from traditional Chinese culture a design language capable of cross-cultural communication, enhancing brand recognition.
Wang Fengchen, from Fujian, is the founder of an avant-garde designer brand and often uses elements of her hometown's tea culture in her original designs. This year, the brand's 2026 autumn/winter collection used Fujian tea leaves brewed into a natural dye to soak fabrics, producing a natural earth-tone color palette. In addition, in a collection created in collaboration with a well-known sportswear brand, she made extensive use of Chinese elements such as ruyi knots, Chinese-style stand collars, and tassels, allowing Eastern aesthetics to reach the global market through sportswear.
While holding fast to fabric quality and original design, this group of young entrepreneurs builds multi-dimensional experiences based on consumers' usage scenarios.
Qian Yawen herself is an outdoor sports enthusiast. Centering on the high-frequency scenario of parent-child outdoor excursions, she integrates China's native natural landforms and biological characteristics into product design. Her representative works select nine bird species from nine cities and, in collaboration with artists, turn them into patterns applied to the garments. The brand also regularly organizes consumers to participate in public welfare activities, incorporating the concept of ecological protection into product design and brand communication.
Youth entrepreneurship plants the seeds for the industry's flourishing development (蓬勃发展, peng bo fa zhan - "flourishing, develop"), and Shanghai continues to optimize supporting policies to help emerging brands take root and grow.
In her second year of entrepreneurship, Qian Yawen, a graduate of Donghua University, received 500,000 yuan in angel funding from the Shanghai College Students' Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Foundation, and at the same time moved into the "Shangchuanghui" Donghua University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Incubation Base, enjoying rent concessions. This year, her project participated in the 12th "Chuang Qingchun" Shanghai Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition and won first prize.
In recent years, Shanghai has vigorously advanced measures to optimize support for youth entrepreneurship. Last October, the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League, together with the unit-level youth league organizations of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce and other departments, established the "Alliance for Assisting Youth Economic Development and Youth Achievement," helping entrepreneurs improve vocational skills and raise business efficiency. All districts have also provided genuine and substantial (实实在在, shi shi zai zai - "real, real, solid") space carriers and supporting services. For example, Jing'an District has created the "Lab812 Youth Gravity Field" at 812 Julu Road, offering free street-front storefronts and providing entrepreneurs with zero-cost trial retail space.
In Shanghai, a group of young entrepreneurs like Qian Yawen are continuously refreshing the display window of style with the power of local original design.
Traditional Culture Illuminates the Beauty of Jewelry
Not long ago, the second Shanwei International Jewelry Exhibition was held in Shanwei City, Guangdong. Over three days, it received more than 110,000 customer visits in total, with total transaction volume of approximately 290 million yuan. More noteworthy than the numbers was the change in front of the booths — there were more young faces before the jewelry counters.
At the main venue of the Meilong Jewelry and Accessories International Trade City in Haifeng County, Shanwei City, a Mr. Zhang who had just married this year browsed for a long time at a silver jewelry booth and finally chose a silver comb with a traditional and antique style (古色古香, gu se gu xiang - "ancient, color, ancient, fragrance"). "Silver combs and silver hairpins are traditional craft ornaments; giving them to my wife is very meaningful," he said.
The gold and silver jewelry industry in Meilong Town, Haifeng County, started from small family workshops in the 1980s. At present, the town has approximately 12,600 business entities related to gold and silver jewelry, more than 80,000 practitioners, and an annual processing volume of approximately 9,000 tons of gold, silver, and copper alloys, with annual output value exceeding 20 billion yuan. Products are sold to many countries and regions.
Original design capability is an important yardstick for measuring an industry. In Meilong, local practitioners are constantly trying to use traditional culture to illuminate the beauty of jewelry. At last year's first Shanwei International Jewelry Exhibition, jewelry featuring traditional cultural elements from a local jewelry factory in Meilong Town was quite popular. Lin Xiaoyi, general manager of the jewelry factory, introduced that the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" series turns classic images such as Yinglong and Pixiu into pendants, each accompanied by a cultural explanation card detailing the mythological stories behind the patterns; the "Brilliant Pear Garden" series draws on traditional operas such as Peking opera and Cantonese opera, turning the sheng, dan, jing, and chou roles of the stage into wearable artistic elements. Two months after the exhibition closed, calls inquiring about orders still kept coming in. "We took our original designs out and talked directly with domestic and foreign merchants; the results exceeded expectations," Lin Xiaoyi said.
Cai Songyan, born in the 1980s, returned from Shenzhen, Guangdong to Shanwei to start a business in 2007, beginning with silver products and colored gemstone OEM processing and wholesale. In 2012, he built a processing factory, shifting the focus from OEM processing to original design. In 2015, his original brand system took shape, with a clear target locked on the Chinese-style direction, and three standards were set: themes must have a basis in ancient texts, production steps cannot be omitted, and designs must have distinctiveness. Over more than ten years, he has designed approximately 1,000 patent products in the Chinese style.
Cai Duzheng, a jewelry manufacturer born in the 1990s, has moved his counter onto the phone screens of overseas merchants. He uses short English videos to tour the factory and explain craftsmanship, filming the wax model making, mold setting, stone setting, electroplating, and other processes in the workshop for overseas merchants to see. Off camera, he is also a designer. The new Chinese-style silver brooches he designs resemble seawater spreading out in layers across the chest. A small piece of silver jewelry has become a vehicle for young people to carry forward traditional culture.
An old trade is being given new forms. Shi Xiaoguo, a member of the Party Leadership Group of the Haifeng County Science, Industry and Information Technology Bureau, said that the locality will continue to guide local jewelry enterprises to deepen craft innovation and strengthen brand building, promoting the extension of traditional processing toward creative design, fine manufacturing, and brand marketing; at the same time, it will deepen domestic and international industry exchanges and resource connections, promoting coordinated development across the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain.
(Hong Jiarong participated in the reporting and writing)
Return to TopBy: 赵 政
Walking into the classroom under the cover of night to learn a hobby, practice a vocational skill, or appreciate an art lecture... In recent times, attending night school has become a lifestyle favored by young people. The sustained rise in popularity of youth night schools in many places reflects people's growing motivation and enthusiasm for learning, and projects a learning-oriented society in which everyone can learn, everywhere learning is possible, and learning can happen at any time.
Building a learning-oriented society requires supporting people in having learning opportunities at every stage of life. Today, learning is not confined to stage-based schooling on campus; leaving the school gate does not mean the end of one's learning journey. For example, Zhejiang has continuously improved its nationwide reading service system, establishing more than 18,000 rural book houses, carrying out over 40,000 reading activities each year, with more than 10 million participants. Learning is not the exclusive preserve of a specific stage of life, but a path by which every person achieves self-improvement.
The carriers and forms of learning are also constantly being updated. Opening the National Smart Education Public Service Platform and entering the lifelong learning center, courses such as workplace English and an introduction to artificial intelligence come into view. Paying tribute to martyrs on the red revolutionary land, checking in at historical sites from textbooks to appreciate the ancient and the modern, listening to science popularization lectures to enrich one's knowledge... Many young people step out of the classroom and enhance their competence and broaden their horizons through study tours. The linkage between online resources and offline venues makes learning more flexible, more diverse, and more targeted.
At present, there are still gaps in learning resources between urban and rural areas and among different groups; the supply of courses in remote villages remains insufficient, and the learning channels for groups such as those in new forms of employment still need to be broadened. To advance the building of a learning-oriented society, it is necessary to improve the grassroots network, open up the "last kilometer" of learning services, enable every willing person to obtain learning opportunities, and let the fruits of education reform and development benefit all the people more extensively and fairly.
The pursuit of learning is a never-ending journey. When learning is available everywhere and growth can happen at any time becomes the norm of society, and when lifelong learning becomes everyone's way of life, it will continuously enhance the civilized quality and innovative vitality of the whole society, injecting an inexhaustible driving force into the great cause of building a strong country and realizing national rejuvenation.
Return to TopBy: 傅永彪
In Zhangdi Village, Dalong Township, Taining County, Sanming City, Fujian Province, volunteers from the Sanming Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles' "Three People in the Distant Mountains" literary and art volunteer service set up easels, capturing the scenery beneath Baxian Cliff in their paintings.
Sending literature and art to the countryside is difficult in "getting down there." The "Three People in the Distant Mountains" team is streamlined in personnel and flexible in operation, "setting out at any time, performing as soon as they enter the village." This form of "serving all the way through" has made it widely popular.
After "getting down there," one must also "hit the right note." To benefit the people, one must ascertain the masses' needs in advance and customize service content accordingly. Courtyard doorsteps and the corridors of ancient houses can all serve as stages; only when services are available anytime and anywhere can they become a regular presence.
What is even more noteworthy is that this is not a one-way "delivery." When literary and art workers go to the countryside, they listen to local stories, observe the changes in mountain villages, and turn local customs and practices into creative material—serving the masses, taking root for field research, and feeding back into creation, forming a cycle. Such a "two-way journey" makes sending literature and art to the countryside a constant source of new ideas or inspiration (源头活水, yuan tou huo shui - "source, head; flowing, water").
Of course, to sustain this over the long term, it ultimately depends on local literary and art talent. Only by nurturing local backbone figures in literature and art and integrating resources can there be lasting vitality, exploring replicable and promotable models for the equalization of basic public cultural services at the grassroots level.
Only by traveling light can one reach the distant mountains. The farther the place, the more it needs such a "light" yet heartfelt arrival.
(Excerpted and adapted from Fujian Daily)
Return to TopTianjin Opens "Direct Express Lane" Dedicated to Courier Workers' Appeals
(Tianjin Daily, Tianjin, November 11) (Reporter Wang Yin) The "12351" courier appeal "direct express lane" platform, jointly established by the Tianjin Municipal Postal Administration and the Tianjin Federation of Trade Unions, was recently officially put into operation, opening a green channel for the vast number of courier workers in Tianjin to express their appeals, safeguard their rights and interests, and seek relief from difficulties.
The courier appeal "direct express lane" platform focuses on six major categories of high-frequency and key appeals, covering arrears of labor remuneration, determination of work-related injury accidents, reporting of hidden dangers in production safety, mediation of labor disputes, appeals for rights protection in platform employment, and applications for legal aid. The dedicated channel implements a fully closed-loop handling working mechanism, implementing standardized management of the entire process of acceptance and registration, review and dispatch, handling within a time limit, and return visits and supervision, achieving precise reception of appeals, categorized dispatch, and professional handling.
Hebei Completes a New Round of Recruitment of Civilian River (Lake) Chiefs
(Hebei Daily, Shijiazhuang, November 11) (Reporter Yuan Lili) Recently, the recruitment of civilian river (lake) chiefs in Hebei Province was completed in Shijiazhuang City, with 21 teams appointed as Hebei Province civilian river (lake) chief teams.
The civilian river (lake) chiefs recruited this time will focus on patrolling and protecting the rivers and lakes around them, carry out publicity activities to care for and protect rivers and lakes in light of local conditions, and collect and feed back opinions and suggestions from surrounding residents regarding the river (lake) chief system and river and lake management and protection, building a bridge of communication between the government and the public.
Chengdu On-Demand Bus Officially Begins Operation
(Sichuan Daily, Chengdu, November 11) (Reporter Chen Hao) After trial operation, the "Rong y Yue" on-demand bus of Chengdu Public Transport in Sichuan recently started operation in the Xinchuan area of Chengdu. The service hours are from 7:30 to 21:00 daily, with a single-trip fare of 2 yuan.
The on-demand bus adopts a responsive operation model of "fixed area, unfixed routes, departure upon request," automatically matching orders in the same direction, dynamically planning routes, and picking up and dropping off passengers in sequence, improving the efficiency of road resource utilization. During the trial operation of the on-demand bus, the average response time after passengers placed orders was about 40 seconds, and the service cumulatively served more than 30,000 passenger trips.
Rice from Hinggan League, Inner Mongolia, Now Has a "Grade ID Card"
(Inner Mongolia Daily, Hinggan League, November 11) (Reporter Gao Minna) It is currently the peak season for new rice to hit the market. This year, the Rice Association of Hinggan League, Inner Mongolia, issued an implementation plan for grading and classifying rice, setting clear self-regulatory norms for member enterprises regarding graded production, use of the public brand, and implementation of pricing.
The plan divides products into three grades, A, B, and C, based on six dimensions: sensory quality, processing quality, physicochemical indicators, planting areas and methods, harvest period, and storage conditions. It simultaneously promotes unified packaging, unified pricing, and unified sales, using standardization to drive industrial upgrading.
Dunhuang Cultural Expo Venues Achieve 100% Green Electricity Supply for 4 Consecutive Years
(Gansu Daily, Dunhuang, November 11) (Reporter Wang Zhandong) The electricity used by the venues of the Ninth Dunhuang Cultural Expo achieved 100% green electricity supply, which also marks the fourth consecutive year that the Dunhuang Cultural Expo venues have achieved full green electricity supply.
Dunhuang City in Gansu Province is rich in wind and solar resources and is an important component of China's first ten-million-kilowatt-level wind power base. The total installed power capacity of Dunhuang City has reached 4.34 million kilowatts, all of which is renewable energy, forming a green energy system with multi-energy complementarity including wind, solar, hydro, solar thermal, and energy storage.
Return to TopBy: 新华社记者 周 密摄影报道
Hongyan School in Nanchang County, Jiangxi, is a school characterized by aviation science and innovation education. The school has developed a school-based curriculum system of "aviation + science and innovation," offering courses such as model aircraft, drone operation, and maker programming. Through observation, interaction, and hands-on experiences, it integrates aviation science and innovation knowledge into the children's campus life.
Return to TopBy: 新华社记者 刘开雄 张 璇 李文哲
Recently, in the Yibin District of Luoyang City, Henan Province, the machines in a steel furniture production workshop roared, and freshly produced steel office furniture was quickly sorted, packed, and boxed; at the freight yard, containers were loaded one after another onto trucks, bound for the Dongfanghong (Luoyang) International Land Port.
"This batch of goods is mainly destined for the United States, Thailand, and Malaysia. After arriving at the destination port, it enters overseas warehouses and can quickly reach consumers," said Cong Guangying, head of an import and export trading company in Luoyang City. "At present, orders are full, and the pace of full-capacity production is scheduled through March next year."
At the product exhibition hall of an electronics company in Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, the company's new self-owned brand headphones integrate an ergonomic open structure with AI (artificial intelligence) technology, capable of completing tasks such as translation, transcription, and meeting minutes, exuding a strong sense of technology. The company's head introduced that the company has laid out its presence on multiple mainstream global e-commerce platforms, relying on the overseas warehouse delivery system to complete order fulfillment, allowing Shenzhen-developed and manufactured products to reach global consumers directly.
The smooth export of quality goods cannot be separated from the continued support of relevant policies. In Henan, Luoyang Customs provides convenient services for the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone business, compressing customs clearance time and reducing enterprise costs; in Shenzhen, Longgang District has established a dedicated tax office for cross-border e-commerce, launching 8 supporting measures to help enterprises go global in compliance with personalized tax services...
Cross-border e-commerce connects domestic and international markets, and more and more quality goods carrying Chinese smart manufacturing will travel across the ocean (漂洋过海, piao yang guo hai - "float, ocean, cross, sea") to deeply integrate into the global market.
(Xinhua News Agency dispatch)
Return to TopBy: 新疆日报记者 司路路
In the winter pasture of Tiebukenwusan Township, Hoboksar Mongol Autonomous County, Xinjiang, herdsman Qalhan Yinitimak felt fully at ease looking at the 300 cattle and 500 sheep in his pens. Just a few days earlier, thanks to the attentive escort of the local border police station's "herd-following policing" (随牧警务), his livestock had successfully completed their autumn-to-winter seasonal migration and settled into the winter pasture.
This is currently the critical period for autumn-winter livestock migration in the pastoral area. Qalhan's household was short-handed, and the migration of several hundred head of livestock could not be completed by the strength of a single person (一人之力, yi ren zhi li - "one person, possess, strength"). In great anxiety, Qalhan called Guo Bingxi, deputy director of the Tiebukenwusan Border Police Station.
After receiving the call for help, the police station quickly activated the "herd-following policing" escort mechanism. Police and auxiliary police formed a herd-protection team and rushed to Qalhan's herding site carrying fodder, repair tools, emergency medicine, and other supplies. Early the next morning, the livestock migration began. The police and auxiliary police led the way ahead, scouting the route, while others brought up the rear, gathering and securing the livestock, providing full escort throughout the journey. "In past years during migration, I worried about livestock getting lost or injured. This year, with police and auxiliary police following along, the whole journey was reassuring and worry-free," Qalhan said.
"'Herd-following policing' is a convenience and herd-protection measure introduced by the Tiebukenwusan Border Police Station in line with the production characteristics of the pastoral area. Police and auxiliary police keep pace with the herdsmen's migration rhythm and resolve various problems herdsmen encounter along the migration route on the spot," said Ma Aipeng, political instructor of the Tiebukenwusan Border Police Station. He noted that since the beginning of this year, the police station has escorted more than 10,000 head of livestock through migration in total.
Return to TopBy: 宁夏日报记者 马 忠
A few days ago, in the activity room of the training center of Beiguan Community, Xingqing District, Yinchuan City, Ningxia, more than ten elderly people were dancing gracefully (翩翩起舞, pian pian qi wu - "flutter, flutter, rise, dance"). Zhang Xiuli, a member of the dance team, said: "In the past, the hardest part was coordinating the use time of the activity room for rehearsals. Now the community leaves the daytime slots to us based on actual needs, and we feel at ease."
At the same moment, in the room next door to the activity room, delivery rider Xiao Li poured himself a cup of warm water, sat down to rest, and casually flipped through the employment policy brochures on the table. "The community has provided us with a place to rest, and here we can also learn about policies at any time — it's very convenient," he said.
Public community venue resources are limited, yet the people they serve are diverse — elderly people, new employment groups, minors, young office workers, and others — with different needs and overlapping usage times. How can limited space accommodate everyone's diverse expectations?
The Beiguan Community Training Center tackles this challenge through "staggered peak sharing." The community has equipped the facility with battery-swap stations, ping-pong tables, rest seating, and other convenience amenities, and offers free access to more than ten basic services including drinking water and a book reading room. In terms of the operating model, it adopts a "government + market" dual-drive approach: inclusive public-welfare courses meet basic livelihood needs, while market-oriented specialized training caters to the public's individualized demands, giving the services both a public-welfare foundation and down-to-earth vitality.
Return to TopBy: 本报通讯员 高源贵
At the eastern end of Beishi Village, Dong'e Town, Pingyin County, Jinan, Shandong, there is a mill. It does more than just grind flour — the villagers also call it the "Mill Bank." There is no counter, no procedure, no collateral, and no interest. When a villager needs money urgently, a signature is all it takes to take some out.
The "Mill Bank" "opened for business" in 2012. It started because a villager was involved in a traffic accident and, upon arriving at the hospital to pay the deposit, found he did not have enough cash, in a state of great anxiety (团团转, tuan tuan zhuan - "revolve, revolve, revolve"). When Shi Xingshun, the village Party branch secretary, learned of this, he paid out of his own pocket (自掏腰包, zi tao yao bao - "self, reach into, waist, bag") to help with the emergency.
"There are many elderly people in the village who are used to using cash. When something urgent comes up, there is no time to go withdraw money. It would be better to keep a sum of money in the village so the folks can take it whenever they need it." Shi Xingshun thought of Cao Guangfen, who runs the mill. She has a warm heart and is always willing to lend a hand to anyone in difficulty.
"Guangfen, I'll leave this 10,000 yuan with you. If the folks have an emergency, they can come and get it, and you keep it managed," Shi Xingshun said. As the money was handed to her, Cao Guangfen's heart was pounding: "What if it gets lost?" But then she thought it over — this was doing a good deed for the villagers. And so the "Mill Bank" opened its doors.
Ever since she took charge of this emergency fund, Cao Guangfen has developed two habits: the money never leaves her person, and her phone stays on 24 hours a day. Over the past 14 years, more than 3,000 transactions totaling over 200,000 yuan have circulated here, with zero defaults and zero bad debts. When someone asks Cao Guangfen how she gets the villagers to repay on time, she says that what makes everyone honor their word and keep promises (重信守诺, zhong xin shou nuo - "heavy, trust, uphold, promise") is precisely the village's simple, honest, and trustworthy folk culture.
Return to TopBy: 湖北日报记者 杨文漪
It is the season of migratory birds heading south, and across the land of Jing and Chu, winter migratory birds are arriving one after another — at the Chen Lake International Important Wetland in Wuhan, Hubei Province alone, more than 50,000 birds have already arrived.
Behind scenes of 30,000 gray-winged black terns nesting and breeding on wild water chestnuts at Chen Lake, the wild charm of ten thousand mu of reed marshes at Shahu in Xiantao, and the small island at the center of Zhangjia Lake in Tianmen becoming a paradise for migratory birds — lies the continued advancement of returning farmland to wetland and returning aquaculture to wetland, as well as the gradual accumulation over time (日积月累, ri ji yue lei - "day, accumulate, month, accumulate") of restoration measures such as banning river sand extraction and preserving lotus root cultivation.
To ensure migratory birds can winter in peace, the nine cities of the Wuhan metropolitan area have each taken concrete measures. At Wang Lake in Huangshi, rice is purchased from farmers every year, with 1,000 mu of paddy left unharvested for wild geese and whooper swans to compete for food. Anshan in Wuhan has explored a tripartite consultation model of "park + village committee + farmers," turning some farmland near the water into "fixed canteens" for migratory birds. Fanwan Lake in Qianjiang has opened a "water runway" among the lotus thickets to facilitate the takeoff and landing of whooper swans; at Liangzi Lake in Ezhou and Shahu in Xiantao, artificial bird nests have been set up in the wetlands; and at Longgan Lake in Huanggang, four bird-watching pavilions have been built along the bird-watching tour route, offering high-definition telescopes free of charge so that visitors can observe birds up close without disturbing them.
Science popularization venues are also being established in tandem — the Chen Lake International Important Wetland education base is open to the public free of charge, serving as a window for immersive learning about wetlands and birds.
Return to TopBy: 本报通讯员 罗 超
Pushing open the door of the "Youjian Apartment" (友间公寓) in Dadukou District, Chongqing, one finds wardrobe, desk, and private bathroom all in place; delivery rider Jiang Tianbo (蒋天波) moves straight in, suitcase in tow.
This apartment complex was once the dormitory building of the Chongqing Iron and Steel Plant. To address the pressing needs and difficulties (急难愁盼, ji nan chou pan - "urgent, difficult, anxious, worried") of the new employment groups, the Social Work Department of the Dadukou District Party Committee took the lead in coordinating with relevant enterprises to renovate and upgrade it into an apartment complex integrating residence, office, and business incubation in one. At present, more than 600 people have moved into the complex, with new employment groups accounting for over 70 percent of residents.
"We must not only give the new employment groups a place to settle down, but also ensure they live well," said Su Jiake (苏加客), head of the "Youjian Apartment" in Dadukou District. Centering on the growth and development needs of the new employment groups, themed salons, special recruitment fairs, and other activities are regularly held here, providing services such as career planning and employment consultation. The apartment complex has also built a shared mutual-aid platform, linking up with surrounding merchants to establish a points-based incentive mechanism, whereby residents can exchange services for points and redeem points for material goods.
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Scientifically and effectively strengthening the restraint and supervision of the exercise of power is a common topic in the political life of all human societies. The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party made strategic arrangements for unswervingly advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, explicitly listing "strengthening the restraint and supervision of the exercise of power" as an important task, and proposing to "more scientifically and effectively confine power within the cage of institutions." General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Public power is by nature public, and it must serve the public. As long as public power exists, there must be restraint and supervision. If it is not confined in a cage, public power will be abused." This important exposition focuses on solving the difficult problem of power supervision facing our Party under conditions of long-term governance, and clarifies the important focal point for coordinating the advancement of law-based governance with institutional governance of the Party and rule-based governance of the Party. Restraining and supervising power requires not only ideals, convictions, and ideological education, but also institutional development; institutions are more fundamental, more comprehensive, more stable, and more enduring in nature.
Establish a more complete and well-developed institutional system for managing and governing power
Without rules, people fall into ruin (人不以规矩则废, ren bu yi gui ju ze fei - "person, not, use, rules, then, waste"), and without rules, the Party falls into chaos. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Without sound institutions, if power is not confined within the cage of institutions, corruption cannot be controlled." Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has upheld institutional governance of the Party and rule-based governance of the Party, promoted the continuous improvement of the system of Party internal rules and regulations, brought the allocation, operation, and supervision of power onto an institutionalized and standardized track, and the effectiveness of governing power through institutions has continued to manifest. Through a more complete and well-developed institutional system for managing and governing power, historic achievements have been made in advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
"A cattle pen cannot keep a cat in." Only when institutions are sufficiently sound and rules are sufficiently complete, when institutional development is effectively carried through all fields of the Party's and the state's undertakings and implemented in all aspects of restraining and supervising power, and when the unity of incentives and constraints is effectively realized, can we better build a solid institutional dam against corruption — one that deters, prevents, and eliminates it. By focusing tightly on the quality of institutional development, building a power-restraint institutional system that is systematic, complete, scientific, standardized, and effective in operation, and continuing to exert effort in such areas as the standardization of power definition, the completeness of the institutional structure, and the integrity of operational links, so as to achieve strict standards, systematic content, interconnected links, and complete measures, can power be restrained more scientifically and effectively.
Scientifically define the boundaries of power. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "All power must have boundaries and be subject to supervision." Whether the cage of institutions can confine power depends first on whether the boundaries of power are clear and whether the division of powers and responsibilities is explicit. This requires upholding the statutory nature of powers and responsibilities, and clearly defining the boundaries, exercising subjects, and scope of application of every power through the Party Constitution and Party internal rules and regulations, and through the Constitution and laws and regulations. Scientifically allocate power, form a scientific power structure and operational mechanism, promote the realization that statutory duties must be performed and that what is not authorized by law may not be done, ensure that all power operates within the statutory scope, and resolutely eliminate arbitrary expansion of power and overstepping of authority. Clarify the boundaries of power, promote the reasonable division of decision-making power, executive power, and supervisory power, avoid the solidification of power that forms barriers of vested interests, and eliminate the layering of additional requirements or the hollowing out of power through a scientific structure of powers and responsibilities.
Enhance the completeness of the institutional system. Strengthening the development of the Party internal rules and regulations system is a long-term and fundamental strategy for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. Deepen the reform of the Party's institutional development, promote the organic unity of law-based governance and rule-based governance of the Party, and provide strong institutional guarantees for unswervingly advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. The exercise of power is a holistic process; fragmented institutions cannot form sustained binding force. Uphold systematic thinking, improve the institutional mechanisms for managing and governing power, carry the strict tone through to the end consistently, and achieve systematic integration in standards, content, links, and measures. Institutions are not valued for their quantity but for their quality and practical usefulness. In line with the principle of being comprehensive in law and simple in procedure, embodying the spirit of reform and legal thinking, and striving to form a systematic and complete institutional system, it is necessary to highlight pertinence and guidance. It is necessary not only to improve foundational and backbone institutions and establish the overall framework and basic norms for power supervision, but also to formulate detailed special implementation rules and regulatory standards for key fields, key positions, and high-risk matters. Build an institutional system with clear backbones, complete supporting measures, and comprehensive coverage, so that every field and every link of power operation has rules to follow and regulations to observe.
Enhance the authority of institutions. Only by grasping the cyclical laws of institutional development, coordinating the establishment, amendment, abolition, and interpretation of institutions, and ensuring that institutional development always conforms to the reality of political life, can we both guarantee the vitality of institutions and maintain their stability, ensuring that every rule and regulation stands firm, works in practice, and is effective in management. Uphold that everyone is equal before institutions and that there are no exceptions in enforcing institutions, leaving no "hidden doors" and opening no "skylights," requiring that what one demands of others one first observes oneself, and what one demands others do one first does oneself, so as to form a guiding orientation of abiding by rules and regulations (遵规守制, zun gui shou zhi - "obey, rules, observe, system") through demonstration and leadership. Uphold the development of democracy, expand public participation, promote openness of institutions, openness of procedures, and openness of results, and extensively solicit opinions during institutional development and operation, thereby increasing identification with institutions and supporting institutional authority with public credibility.
Establish a more authoritative and efficient institutional enforcement mechanism
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "To confine power within the cage of institutions, it is necessary not only to improve institutional provisions and weave the cage tightly and firmly, but also to enhance the enforcement capacity of institutions and strengthen rigid constraints." The Decision of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party emphasizes: "Enhance the enforcement capacity of institutions." To strengthen the rigid constraints of institutions, it is necessary to eliminate the phenomena of making choices, making alterations, and offering discounts, and to prevent hard constraints from becoming "rubber bands."
Consciously study, master, and deeply understand institutions. An important factor in the lack of enforcement capacity of institutions is that some leading Party members and cadres do not study institutions enough, do not master institutions enough, and do not consciously observe institutions enough. Awareness of rules relies on daily education and cultivation, and institutional development values persistent effort — managing affairs means managing people, and managing people means managing thought and work style. Uphold treating the study of institutions itself as an important institution, regularly carry out study and education, and during organizational life and collective study, study Party internal rules and regulations and national laws well, so that Party members and cadres understand the requirements of all institutional aspects and clearly grasp the original intent of institutions, the circumstances of application, prohibited provisions, and responsibility consequences. Promote all Party members and cadres to enhance Party consciousness, Party member consciousness, and vanguard consciousness. Promote the value of institutions, guide Party members and cadres to consciously revere institutions and respect institutions, break down the subjective tendency toward selective enforcement and flexible implementation, and continuously consolidate the seriousness and authority of institutions.
Success depends on implementation rather than planning (一分部署，九分落实, yi fen bu shu, jiu fen luo shi - "one part, deploy; nine parts, implement"). In institutional enforcement, the most important thing is to grasp implementation and be as good as one's word and carry things through (言必行、行必果, yan bi xing, xing bi guo - "speech, must, act; act, must, fruit"). The problems in institutional development of "emphasizing formulation over enforcement," "existing in name only, serving as mere decoration," and "scarecrows and paper tigers" are, in the final analysis, problems of unsound institutional enforcement mechanisms. Institutional constraints are rigid constraints; once promulgated, orders and prohibitions must be observed. By strengthening procedural awareness, it is necessary to ensure that duties that should be performed must be performed and responsibilities that should be borne must be borne. Using institutions to manage power, affairs, and people, safeguarding fairness, justice, and openness, and forming long-term effective institutional mechanisms require strengthening supervision and inspection of institutional enforcement to ensure that institutions exert authority at all times and are effective everywhere. Uphold seeking truth from facts, implement institutional requirements in accordance with actual conditions, carry out work creatively, actively explore effective methods and approaches for institutional enforcement, and resolutely avoid applying blindly without understanding (生搬硬套, sheng ban ying tao - "vividly, copy, rigidly, apply") and a one-size-fits-all approach.
Only when institutions are upheld by strict discipline can the effectiveness of institutional enforcement be truly enhanced. As the saying goes, "The world does not worry about the absence of laws, but about the absence of laws that are certain to be enforced." Without strict discipline as a guarantee, institutions are nothing but a scrap of paper. Interference from power and corrosion by money often operate in more hidden and more complex ways. It is necessary to improve the Party internal rules and regulations system, enhance institutional enforcement capacity, and vigorously eliminate hidden rules. Those who disobeying orders or ignoring prohibitions (有令不行，有禁不止, you ling bu xing, you jin bu zhi - "have, order, not, act; have, prohibition, not, stop") must be resolutely and seriously investigated and dealt with; it must never be allowed that rules are broken because of great power, that violations are tolerated because they are minor, or that violations are left unchecked because many are involved — truly making iron rules exert force and prohibitions exert authority. Abusing and arbitrarily using power is dereliction of duty; failing to use or abandoning power is also dereliction of duty. Strengthen institutional enforcement through effective accountability mechanisms, start with specific matters, provide early reminders and early corrections, and achieve solid and detailed work, sustained and regular work, so that every institutional provision is implemented one by one.
Establish a more scientific and standardized responsibility mechanism
More scientifically and effectively confining power within the cage of institutions cannot be separated from strong responsibility guarantees. It is necessary to firmly grasp the "ox nose" of the responsibility system for Party governance and Party self-governance, strive to build a scientific, standardized, clearly defined, and smoothly connected power operation system, clarify primary responsibility, supervisory responsibility, and work responsibility at each level, uphold that where there is power there must be responsibility, where there is responsibility there must be accountability, and where responsibility is lost there must be investigation, and empower institutional enforcement with a strict and solid chain of responsibility, continuously releasing the force of institutions. Improve the responsibility system in which each bears its own responsibility and all coordinate as one, optimize the assessment mechanism for responsibility implementation, and seriously pursue accountability and question responsibility where Party governance is ineffective or serious problems arise, forming a strong driving force for the implementation of institutions.
Building a scientific and standardized responsibility system is the basic prerequisite for implementing accountability requirements. If responsibilities are unclear, accountability has no basis; if boundaries are undefined, the pursuit of responsibility loses accuracy. Uphold the principle of matching power with responsibility, closely follow the process of power operation and the tasks of institutional implementation, improve the responsibility list system, transform the requirements of all institutions into rigid responsibility provisions that can be implemented, inspected, and pursued for accountability, and realize that wherever power goes, responsibility follows. Grasp the main line of institutional development, both continuing to establish a system of rules and regulations (建章立制, jian zhang li zhi - "build, regulations, establish, system") to "add bricks and tiles" in response to real problems, and doing "fine decoration" within the existing institutional framework, promoting the solution of practical problems, weaving the institutional net tightly, and realizing that institutional development keeps pace with the times (与时俱进, yu shi ju jin - "with, time, together, advance").
Coordinate the levels and types of responsibility and fasten the chain of responsibility. Prevent the hollowing out and suspension of responsibility, and avoid the problem of "everyone is responsible, yet no one is responsible." Focus tightly on leadership responsibility. Leading cadres, as the "key minority," are both demonstrators of institutional enforcement and the first persons responsible for implementing institutions; they must take the lead in respecting and enforcing institutions, play a demonstrative role, and make abiding by rules and regulations a prevailing practice. Strengthen supervisory responsibility. Better fulfill the supervisory responsibility of supervisory subjects such as discipline inspection commissions and supervision commissions, give full play to the important role of inspection — this "sharp sword" against corruption — in intra-Party supervision, carry out routine supervision and inspection focused on the exercise of power and the implementation of institutions, and promote more standardized management and governance of power. Consolidate work responsibility. Strictly perform duties and exercise power in accordance with institutions, and continuously improve the legal thinking and law-based work capability of the subjects exercising public power in all fields.
Use accountability to compel responsibility and guarantee the rigidity of institutions. To establish the rigidity of institutions, it is necessary to seriously standardize the pursuit of responsibility. Accountability is not the end in itself; the emphasis is on supervising the implementation of responsibility and safeguarding institutional authority. The Party Constitution grants Party organizations at all levels the authority to impose disciplinary sanctions; Party committees (Party groups) at all levels must dare to manage and dare to discipline, and bear the political responsibility for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. Strictly implement discipline enforcement and accountability, improve the long-term mechanism for grasping implementation, and ensure that all work is implemented and produces tangible results. Uphold seeking truth from facts, act in accordance with rules and discipline, distinguish among different circumstances such as deliberate evasion, passive implementation, and failure to perform duties, accurately define responsibility, prevent the generalization and simplification of accountability, and realize the combination of strict management and loving care, and the equal emphasis on incentives and constraints.
Responsibility is the "ballast stone" of the institutional system and institutional practice. Under institutions, no one can harbor the slightest fluke mentality. Only by continuously improving the responsibility system, clarifying the responsibilities of all parties, and rigidly implementing accountability, so that supervision, assessment, and the pursuit of responsibility are organically connected, can the institutional cage continue to exert force and produce results, ensuring that public power always operates on the standardized track of the rule of law and institutions.
Truly let power operate in the sunlight
Transparency is the best supervision. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "It is necessary to further increase the transparency of Party affairs and government affairs, truly let power operate in the sunlight, and make hidden rules lose their market." The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party made arrangements for "vigorously eliminating hidden rules," explicitly emphasizing "upholding the establishment of clear rules and promoting openness of Party affairs and government affairs." To more scientifically and effectively confine power within the cage of institutions, it is necessary to effectively safeguard the public's right to know, the right to participate, and the right to supervise, improve the mechanism for scientific and democratic decision-making, and achieve the promotion of fairness through openness and the strengthening of supervision through transparency.
Deepen the openness of power operation and consolidate the foundation for exercising power in the sunlight. Sunlight is the basic element for confining power within the cage of institutions; the dark box is the hotbed for breeding corruption. Upholding the management of power, affairs, and people through institutions requires further improving the government affairs openness system, upholding openness as the norm and non-openness as the exception, clarifying the list of items to be disclosed in accordance with law, continuously expanding the scope of disclosure, standardizing the content of disclosure, and smoothing the channels of disclosure, and disclosing to society the basis, procedures, and results of the exercise of power. Focus on areas with higher integrity risks such as administrative approval, resource allocation, project management, and fund use, eliminate selective disclosure and vague disclosure, break down the "dark zones" in the exercise of power, make the entire process of power operation traceable and verifiable, and create preconditions for social supervision.
Improve the mechanism for scientific and democratic decision-making and prevent the loss of normative standards of power at the source. Embed the requirements of openness and transparency into the entire decision-making process, and improve the decision-making procedures of public participation, expert demonstration, risk assessment, legality review, and collective discussion and decision. Improve the collective decision-making mechanism, fully solicit opinions from all parties before making decisions on major matters, and achieve strict adherence to procedures, rules, and collective will in handling affairs. Raise the quality of intra-Party democracy and strictly implement the decision-making and deliberation rules of leading bodies. Be adept at using open methods and relying on standardized procedures to compress the space for subjective discretion, disclose relevant information in accordance with regulations during the decision-making process, promptly publicize decision-making results to the public, enhance the scientific nature of decision-making through effective openness of decisions, and prevent the risk of power abuse at the source.
Safeguard orderly public participation and constrain public power through mass supervision. Marx and Engels pointed out that all public officials must "work under public supervision," which "can reliably prevent people from pursuing promotion and wealth" and "pursuing their own special interests." To truly let power operate in the sunlight, it is necessary to improve the mechanism for orderly public participation and smooth the channels for expressing opinions. Guide the public to put forward opinions and suggestions on the exercise of power in accordance with regulations and in an orderly manner, and to supervise acts of using power in violation of regulations. Actively respond to social concerns, promptly clarify doubts and dispel confusion, and transform external supervision into internal self-awareness of regulating the use of power. Focus tightly on the "key minority," resolutely oppose privilege, and safeguard institutional fairness. Resolutely break down the "theory of special power"; regardless of the level of one's position, one must accept the test of sunlight and institutional constraints in the exercise of power. Continuously deepen openness and transparency, broaden orderly supervision channels, focus tightly on key targets, resist privileged behavior, make supervision omnipresent, continuously reinforce the institutional cage, and ensure that public power is always used to benefit the people.
Small wisdom governs affairs, medium wisdom governs people, and great wisdom establishes laws. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "To solve the prominent contradictions and problems existing within the Party and to effectively resolve the major challenges and dangers facing the Party, a very important point is to improve norms, perfect institutions, and tighten the cage of institutions." To unswervingly advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, respond to the "four major challenges," withstand the "four major tests," and prevent the "four dangers," it is necessary to always maintain a sense of urgency, uphold theoretical innovation on the basis of practice to promote institutional innovation; build a systematic, complete, scientific, standardized, and effective institutional system, fully stimulate the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the whole Party, both transmitting pressure layer by layer and stimulating motivation layer by layer; uphold the combination of incremental reform and innovation with the utilization of existing resources, top-level strategic design with grassroots practical innovation, and institutional system construction with reform, development, and improvement, continuously promote the development and improvement of institutions in practice, make all institutions more mature and more finalized, and provide stronger and more solid institutional guarantees for comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization.
(The author is a professor at the School of CPC History and Party Building, Renmin University of China)
Return to TopBy: 刘志昌
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping, standing at the strategic height of high-quality economic and social development and the comprehensive development of the individual, has made a series of important expositions on safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods and enhancing the quality of people's lives, clarifying major theoretical and practical questions such as "why to create a high-quality life," "what kind of high-quality life to create," and "how to create a high-quality life," thereby advancing historic achievements in livelihood construction in the new era. A high-quality life is a signature concept in General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods; it enriches and develops Marxist livelihood theory, provides scientific guidance for advancing livelihood construction and social development in the new era, and carries major theoretical and practical significance.
A high-quality life is the better and finer good life that the people yearn for
A high-quality life is a good life rooted in the people's needs. General Secretary Xi Jinping accurately grasps the historical laws of social development and points out that in the new era "the principal contradiction facing Chinese society has evolved into the contradiction between the people's ever-growing needs for a better life and unbalanced and inadequate development. In the past, we had to solve the problem of 'whether something exists'; now we must solve the problem of 'whether something is good,'" and puts forward the important goal of "striving to promote high-quality development and create a high-quality life." From solving the problem of adequate food and clothing to achieving moderate prosperity in general and then moderate prosperity in all respects, the tasks and goals of China's livelihood construction have also shifted from solving the survival problem of "whether something exists" to solving the life-quality problem of "whether something is good." A high-quality life is a form of life that continuously upgrades and iterates with the development of the times, reflecting the relatively high quality and level attained by objective living conditions, and is a good life that continuously develops and improves amid the people's pursuit of a better life.
A high-quality life is a good life covering all spheres of life. General Secretary Xi Jinping points out: "The people's needs are characterized by diversity, multi-levelness, and multi-facetedness; they look forward to better education, more stable employment, more satisfactory income, more reliable social security, higher-level medical and health services, more comfortable living conditions, a more beautiful environment, and richer spiritual and cultural life." These "eight betters" elucidate the main content of a high-quality life, covering all spheres of people's livelihoods, encompassing both material abundance and spiritual enrichment, and representing a comprehensive elevation across the material, spiritual, social, ecological, and health dimensions, manifesting the value goals of the Five-Sphere Integrated Plan in people's livelihoods; in essence, it is a state of good life jointly built and shared by all the people.
A high-quality life is a good life in which the sense of gain, the sense of happiness, and the sense of security are organically unified. A high-quality life is built on the solid foundation of objective living conditions and is also expressed in the people's subjective experience of living conditions and the environment. General Secretary Xi Jinping points out: "We must take meeting the people's ever-growing needs for a better life as the starting point and ultimate goal, continuously transform development achievements into life quality, and constantly strengthen the people's sense of gain, sense of happiness, and sense of security." The sense of gain reflects objective gains based on practice, the sense of happiness emphasizes the subjective experience of the subject's psychology, and the sense of security comes from a stable judgment of future expectations. These three "senses" transform objective development achievements into subjective value experience and then extend to stable expectations for the future, embodying the organic unity of objective living conditions and subjective life experience.
Scientifically understand the relationship between high-quality development and a high-quality life
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasizes: "We must always keep the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people at heart, unswervingly enhance the well-being of the people, closely combine high-quality development with meeting the people's needs for a better life, and promote the organic integration and mutual enhancement of adhering to ecological priority, promoting high-quality development, and creating a high-quality life." It is necessary to scientifically understand the relationship between high-quality development and a high-quality life and create a high-quality life through the coordinated advancement of high-quality development and livelihood construction.
Use a high-quality life to lead and promote high-quality development. Social needs are the sum and sublimation of human needs. The needs of a high-quality life create demand for high-quality development and drive the transformation and upgrading of development modes, distribution structures, and public services. A high-quality life, by elevating "life quality" to drive up "consumption quality," and thereby promoting the optimization of "production quality," ultimately forms a dynamic balance between supply and demand at a higher level, and is an important engine for developing new quality productive forces and promoting economic transformation.
Use high-quality development to strongly guarantee a high-quality life. General Secretary Xi Jinping points out: "High-quality development is development that can well meet the people's ever-growing needs for a better life." We must safeguard and improve people's livelihoods in the course of high-quality development, vigorously develop new quality productive forces, promote the upgrading of the industrial system toward high-end, intelligent, and green development, and provide the masses with higher-quality product and service supply. Give priority to high-quality and full employment, increase residents' income through multiple channels, and continue to expand the middle-income group. Coordinate the advancement of equalization of basic public services, improve the multi-tiered social security system, shore up shortcomings in people's livelihoods, and continue to narrow development gaps between urban and rural areas, between regions, and between groups. Coordinate the advancement of carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and economic growth, so that a sound ecology becomes the most inclusive form of public well-being, and effectively transform the achievements of high-quality development into a high-quality life that the people can perceive and enjoy.
Enhance the quality of people's lives with common prosperity as the goal
To better meet the people's ever-growing needs for a better life, we must take promoting common prosperity for all the people as an important goal in seeking happiness for the people, and enhance the quality of life in the course of promoting common prosperity.
Common prosperity and a high-quality life are interconnected and mutually reinforcing. Common prosperity is the organic unity of material abundance and spiritual enrichment, and a high-quality life is an inherent part of common prosperity. Promoting common prosperity, through institutional arrangements, narrowing development gaps, improving public services, and safeguarding social fairness, can provide the material foundation and social conditions for all the people to enjoy a high-quality life. At the same time, a high-quality life is also a manifestation of the achievements of promoting common prosperity; it means that development achievements can meet the people's real, specific, and diverse needs for a better life at the material and spiritual levels, that development achievements can be transformed into a life state that each person can perceive and measure in daily life, and that it is reflected in the continuously strengthening sense of gain, sense of happiness, and sense of security.
Enhance the quality of people's lives in the course of promoting common prosperity. Our Party's proposal of major propositions such as common prosperity and a high-quality life is precisely a realistic response to problems such as the gap between rich and poor. We must adhere to the people-centered development philosophy and continuously improve the people's material standard of living. Strive to stabilize and expand employment, increase residents' income through multiple channels, improve the distribution system, solidly advance comprehensive rural revitalization, improve the social security system, strengthen the equalization of basic public services, and promote the realization of more balanced, more coordinated, and more inclusive development goals. Strive to build spiritual civilization, enrich the supply of cultural products guided by the people's ever-growing spiritual and cultural needs, and enhance the quality of people's lives in the coordinated development of material civilization and spiritual civilization.
Create a high-quality life in the organic unity of promoting the comprehensive development of the individual and the comprehensive progress of society
General Secretary Xi Jinping points out: "The development we pursue is development that benefits the people" and "let the fruits of development benefit all the people more and more fairly, and continuously promote the comprehensive development of the individual." The ultimate goal of modernization is to realize the comprehensive development of the individual. The comprehensive development of the individual cannot be separated from a high-quality life, and at the same time provides the source of momentum and the value orientation for creating a high-quality life.
A high-quality life deepens and develops the Marxist thought on the comprehensive development of the individual. A high-quality life is the unity of coordinated advancement of social development and human development, and is the creative application and development of the Marxist stand, viewpoint, and method in the new era. A high-quality life is a manifestation of social progress, providing support for the comprehensive development of the individual from multiple dimensions such as material, service, spiritual, and environmental aspects. A high-quality life places the Marxist "real individual" within the social relations and level of productive forces of the new era, and expands the people's and society's needs from "material and cultural needs" to "needs for a better life," representing an inherited innovation, an epochal deepening, and a practical sublimation of the Marxist thought on the comprehensive development of the individual.
Social development is not an abstract process detached from the individual, but a process of meeting the people's ever-growing needs for a better life. Entering the new era, our Party has focused on solving the problem of unbalanced and inadequate development, promoting the effective improvement in quality and reasonable growth in quantity of the economy; providing the people with better public services such as education and medical care, establishing and improving a population service system covering all people and the entire life cycle, and vigorously promoting high-quality population development; advancing the modernization of the governance system and governance capacity, building a social ecology of fairness and justice, honesty and fraternity, and vitality, adhering to the harmonious coexistence of humanity and nature, promoting the formation of green production and lifestyle, and continuously enhancing people's well-being and improving the quality of people's lives in all respects in the course of promoting comprehensive social progress and the comprehensive development of the individual.
(The author is a researcher at the Capital Governance Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
Return to TopIn 2013, China put forward the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, promoting the building of a world of lasting peace, universal security, common prosperity, openness and inclusiveness, and clean and beautiful. The concept of a community with a shared future for mankind provides a new ontology and epistemology for theoretical innovation in international relations.
Surveying the whole process (纵观, zong guan - "look through, survey") of the development of international relations theory, the ontological understanding of the world is often the starting point of theoretical exploration, directly influencing people's views on the nature of the world and international relations. The concept of a community with a shared future for mankind embodies unique theoretical value at the ontological level. Many traditional international relations theories are based on individual subjectivity and individual rationalism, emphasizing binary opposition and the division between center and periphery, and their observation of the world first stresses competitiveness, confrontationality, and exclusivity. The concept of a community with a shared future for mankind, by contrast, emphasizes wholeness, interconnectedness, inclusiveness, and harmony at the ontological level, all of which are reflected in the cosmology, worldview, conception of order, and conception of society emphasized in Chinese culture. From the perspective of a community with a shared future for mankind, the world is a whole, and different individuals and countries are interconnected and interdependent. This ontology breaks through the epistemology of traditional international relations theory, viewing the world with an entirely new lens. On this basis, when understanding, thinking about, and studying the many phenomena and issues of international relations, it is naturally necessary to adhere to holistic thinking, systematic thinking, interconnected thinking, dialectical thinking, and long-term thinking; to coordinate both the domestic and international situations; and to coordinate history, the present, and the future.
— Excerpted from the Chinese Social Sciences Today, September 16, 2026, author: Sun Jisheng, original title: "Continuously Enhancing the Influence of the Concept of a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind"
Return to TopUphold Open Cooperation and Enhance Mutual Understanding
Pavel Negoytsa, Director General of the Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta
Since the Belt and Road Initiative was proposed more than 10 years ago, the number of participating countries has continued to grow, a batch of cooperation projects have been implemented, and the scale of investment has continued to expand, drawing widespread attention and expectations from the international community. As time goes by, one fact is becoming increasingly clear: whether measured by the coverage of participating countries, the number of projects implemented, the scale of investment already made or planned, or the enthusiasm and expectation it has evoked in the hearts of people across all continents, perhaps no other initiative in today's world can rival it.
In recent years, in the face of challenges such as unilateral sanctions, tariff barriers, and trade restrictions, Belt and Road cooperation has upheld open cooperation and injected stability into global development. This initiative is grand in vision and farsighted in perspective. The principle of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits that it upholds stands in sharp contrast to some current bloc-based and confrontational approaches to governance.
The Russian side attaches importance to promoting the Belt and Road Initiative and the construction of the Greater Eurasian Partnership developing in parallel without conflict (并行不悖, bing xing bu bei - "parallel, not, go against") and in a coordinated manner, and to advancing bilateral and multilateral integration processes for the benefit of the peoples of all countries on the Eurasian continent.
The cooperation outcomes that the peoples of Eurasian countries look forward to lie not only in economic development and improvement of people's livelihoods, but also in promoting people-to-people bonds and enhancing mutual understanding. Deep collaboration between regions can both stimulate economic vitality, create more development opportunities, and expand channels for people-to-people and cultural exchanges, consolidating the foundation of people-to-people bonds. I firmly believe that the media will surely play an active and positive role in the above process.
(Compiled by Shen Sheng, reporter of Global Times)
Moving Forward Together with United Strength, Connecting Hearts through Mutual Learning
Jiang Haiqing, Member of the Editorial Board of China Media Group
The Belt and Road Initiative reflects the development path of Chinese modernization and also heralds the path of win-win cooperation between China and the world. As the 15th Five-Year Plan gets off to a good start, from "freehand brushwork" to "fine brushwork," from "hard connectivity" and "soft connectivity" to "people-to-people connectivity," the strokes of cooperation are becoming ever more refined, and the foundation of win-win outcomes is becoming ever more distinct.
Moving forward together with united strength, we gather the power of mountains and seas in harmony. Not long ago, a grand gathering was held to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. Carrying forward the Silk Road Spirit and advancing high-quality Belt and Road cooperation is precisely a "new Long March" that spans mountains and seas and leads to shared prosperity. We are willing to work together with media from all countries to tell the stories of our times about unity of purpose and win-win cooperation, making the voice of solidarity and cooperation louder and the confidence in jointly pursuing prosperity firmer.
Through mutual learning, we build a bridge for dialogue among civilizations. The Silk Road has stretched for a thousand years, leaving behind the footprints of merchants trading with myriad nations and, even more, splendid chapters of harmonious coexistence. We look forward to standing shoulder to shoulder with media colleagues from all countries, so that the stories of the Silk Road can spread farther, wider, and deeper into people's hearts, and so that different civilizations can appreciate the unique beauty of different cultures (各美其美, ge mei qi mei - "each, beautiful, its, beautiful") and share the beauty of diverse civilizations together (美美与共, mei mei yu gong - "beautiful, beautiful, with, share").
Toward innovation and intelligence, we expand the path of innovative cooperation. The wave of the digital age surges endlessly, intelligent media transformation is surging and swelling like wind and clouds (风起云涌, feng qi yun yong - "wind, rise; cloud, surge"), and cutting-edge technologies are reshaping the communication ecosystem, opening up entirely new space of imagination for Silk Road cooperation. We are willing to further strengthen technological exchanges and share innovative experience with media colleagues from all countries, injecting more surging intellectual momentum into high-quality Belt and Road cooperation.
(Compiled by Ruan Kexin, reporter of People's Daily)
Strengthen Media Cooperation and Promote People-to-People and Cultural Exchanges
Dana Rysmukhamedova, Director General of the International News Agency of Kazakhstan
In 2013, President Xi Jinping proposed the Belt and Road Initiative. Over the past more than 10 years, this initiative has opened broad space for economic development and infrastructure construction cooperation between Kazakhstan and China, and has also built an important platform for social, cultural, and people-to-people exchanges. Thanks to the strategic guidance of the leaders of the two countries, Belt and Road cooperation has made positive progress in transport corridor construction, economic and trade exchanges, and people-to-people and cultural exchanges. The Kazakh side has always supported the development of the Kazakhstan-China permanent comprehensive strategic partnership and is willing to promote the continuous deepening of cooperation in various fields.
Media cooperation is an important bond for promoting the peoples of all countries to get to know and feel close to one another (相知相亲, xiang zhi xiang qin - "mutually, know, mutually, close"). Kazakhstan and China are geographically adjacent, with close economic, trade, and people-to-people and cultural exchanges, and the peoples of the two countries are increasingly paying attention to and understanding each other. The Radio and Television Corporation of the President of Kazakhstan has actively expanded international cooperation and has signed cooperation memorandums of understanding with about 70 media organizations, including People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, China Media Group, as well as Al Jazeera, Yonhap News Agency, TASS, and others. The deepening of Kazakhstan-China cooperation has promoted increasingly close media information exchanges between the two sides and also created conditions for further strengthening collaboration.
Belt and Road cooperation promotes economic and trade exchanges and also drives people-to-people and cultural exchanges. The media can bring people closer together, make international interactions deeper, and make exchanges between different countries more substantive and warmer. We look forward to the Belt and Road News Network providing more effective channels of collaboration for media from all countries, promoting closer ties and deeper exchanges and cooperation among media from all countries, and turning international interactions into in-depth and pragmatic exchanges and dialogues.
(Compiled by Meng Fanzhe, reporter of People's Daily)
Pooling Broad Consensus and Building a Shared Vision
Saadia Sharif, Chief Marketing Officer of the Jang Media Group of Pakistan
The Belt and Road Initiative is not only about infrastructure and trade; it carries a vision of connecting countries, economies, and peoples. For Pakistan, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is precisely a vivid practice of this vision. The outcomes of Belt and Road cooperation are reflected not only in highway mileage and installed power capacity, but also in pooling consensus, enhancing well-being, and building a shared vision.
Broad consensus begins with shared principles. Belt and Road cooperation has always upheld the Silk Road Spirit centered on peace and cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning, and mutual benefit. This is not abstract diplomatic rhetoric, but a true portrayal of Pakistan-China relations.
A shared vision calls for tangible outcomes. The first phase of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor construction effectively alleviated Pakistan's energy shortage, promoted infrastructure construction, and helped remote areas connect to markets and gain development opportunities. The Suki Kinari Hydropower Station, invested in and built by a Chinese enterprise alone, provides clean electricity to more than 1 million households and created more than 6,000 jobs during the peak construction period. These are not cold data, but carry the warmth of people's livelihoods.
We have not stopped here. At present, the two sides are building the "2.0 upgraded version" of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, constructing the "five corridors" of growth, livelihood, innovation, green development, and openness. Growth means employment, livelihood means dignity, innovation means the future, green development concerns survival, and openness promotes connectivity.
Pooling strength with consensus and creating the future together through cooperation. Pakistan is willing to continue moving forward hand in hand with all parties.
(Compiled by Zhang Wenhao, reporter of People's Daily)
Nuclear Energy Lights Up the Maritime Silk Road, Green Power Creates a Win-Win Future
Zhang Tao, Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and General Manager of China National Nuclear Corporation
Nuclear energy is not only a clean and low-carbon energy source, but also a bond connecting China with the world and a golden key to a better future.
Empowering local green transformation with the strength of nuclear energy. The world's first reactor of the "Hualong One" third-generation nuclear power technology with completely independent intellectual property rights has been put into operation in Fujian. The two major nuclear power bases in Fuqing and Zhangzhou currently have 8 units in operation and 2 units under construction, generating nearly 56.88 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in the first 10 months of this year. In the next step, CNNC will leverage its advantages across the entire industrial chain, using nuclear technology as the brush and green as the ink, so that "ecological beauty" and "people's prosperity" complement each other on Chinese soil.
Building a nuclear energy cooperation ecosystem with an open attitude. We are promoting advanced nuclear power technologies such as "Hualong One" to go global. We not only carry out cooperation in technology and equipment, but also strengthen exchanges in standards, talent cultivation, and management experience, and further demonstrate to the world the spirit of Chinese nuclear industry workers in pursuing excellence. CNNC will promote international cooperation in nuclear technology applications, uranium resource security, and other fields, contributing Chinese wisdom and strength to addressing climate change and promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energy and nuclear technology.
Promoting people-to-people bonds through the bridge of media. Authentic, transparent, and responsible nuclear energy development practices are vivid material for telling China's story well. We welcome media friends to visit the site of the world's first "Hualong One" reactor, to feel the original aspiration of this commitment, to support this vision of openness and win-win outcomes, and to spread this scientific and technological force that benefits humanity.
CNNC is willing to work with global partners to light up the path of global green development with the light of nuclear energy and to pool the joint force of international cooperation through openness and win-win outcomes.
(Compiled by Zhu Yuejun, reporter of People's Daily)
Connecting Silk Road Funds and Improving Service Quality and Efficiency
Wang Zhiheng, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Agricultural Bank of China
As a leading bank serving rural revitalization, a main-force bank serving the real economy, and a people's bank serving a better life, Agricultural Bank of China has been rated as a global systemically important bank for 12 consecutive years and continues to improve the quality and efficiency of financial services for high-quality Belt and Road cooperation.
First, deepening services for agriculture, rural areas, and farmers (三农) and consolidating the foundation of people's livelihoods. Agricultural Bank of China actively serves international cooperation in agriculture. As of the end of September, the bank's loan balance in county areas exceeded 12 trillion yuan, an increase of about 10 percent from the beginning of the year. Since the beginning of this year, it has handled international business of more than 400 billion yuan for agricultural product trade.
Second, based on infrastructure finance, boosting connectivity. Agricultural Bank of China actively participates in the construction of multi-dimensional land, sea, air, and cyberspace corridors and has incorporated services for the construction of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor into the bank's overall system for serving the national strategy of regional development. It has strengthened financial services for connectivity, supporting key projects such as the Pinglu Canal, the China-Thailand Railway, and the Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport in Cambodia, contributing to the promotion of regional "hard connectivity."
Third, pooling financial strength and jointly expanding the development blueprint. In the past three years, Agricultural Bank of China has handled nearly 7 trillion yuan in international business with Belt and Road partner countries, covering 153 countries. It has established cooperative relationships with 729 banks in partner countries and continuously built a financial cooperation bridge for the Belt and Road Initiative.
Agricultural Bank of China is willing to always uphold the concept of open cooperation and mutual benefit, continue to do a good job in financing and services for the people, guide more resources toward the field of green transformation, and promote mutual understanding and integration among the peoples of partner countries through diversified financial cooperation.
(Compiled by Fang Yuan, reporter of People's Daily)
Carrying Forward the Shanghai Spirit and Deepening Exchange and Collaboration
Oleg Kopylov, Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Since President Xi Jinping proposed the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, relevant cooperation has achieved fruitful results, opening new space for deepening economic, trade, and investment cooperation within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization family. The Belt and Road Initiative adheres to extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, which is highly compatible with the Shanghai Spirit upheld by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, namely mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality, consultation, respect for the diversity of civilizations, and pursuit of common development.
At the 26th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization held on September 1 this year, the leaders of member states signed and issued the Bishkek Declaration on the 25th Anniversary of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Most member states reaffirmed their support for the Belt and Road Initiative and affirmed the work done by all parties for the joint implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative, including the promotion of the alignment between the Belt and Road Initiative and the construction of the Eurasian Economic Union.
The role of the media in promoting exchanges between countries and enhancing people-to-people bonds is becoming increasingly prominent. The Secretariat of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization maintains close contact with Chinese media and mainstream media of member states. On the eve of the Bishkek Summit, the Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Yermekbayev, gave an interview to a reporter of People's Daily, and the related work drew widespread attention.
Within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, member states have continued to put forward initiatives to deepen media cooperation, with areas of cooperation involving media resource sharing, content exchange, roundtable meetings, and joint interviews. The Secretariat of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is willing to continue deepening practical cooperation in the media field, promote strengthened exchanges and cooperation among media from all countries, and better tell the international community the stories of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Belt and Road Initiative.
(Compiled by Zhu Yuejun, reporter of People's Daily)
Connecting Global Markets and Creating a Model of the Silk Road
Miao Jianmin, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of China Merchants Group
As a century-old central enterprise born from the sea with a global layout, China Merchants Group consciously integrates itself into the national strategy of high-level opening up, coordinates the collaborative international expansion of port, shipping, and logistics, parks, finance, and pharmaceutical industries, builds a global infrastructure network and comprehensive service system, and strives to create a demonstration model for central enterprises serving high-quality Belt and Road cooperation.
Creating a model of connectivity infrastructure construction. Leveraging the advantages of the entire port, shipping, and logistics industrial chain, it has invested in and laid out 72 ports in 27 countries and regions, built 84 overseas logistics outlets covering 46 countries, and helped relevant countries deeply integrate into the global trading system.
Creating a model of jointly built and shared industrial cooperation. Relying on its domestically leading park operation experience and resource advantages, it has built and operated 4 overseas parks, attracted nearly 800 enterprises, and enhanced local industrial momentum.
Creating a model of people-to-people bonds with shared commitment. Upholding the concept of "business for good, mutual benefit and win-win," it implements various "small yet beautiful" projects in light of local conditions. In Sri Lanka, it has built the "China Merchants Silk Road Love Village," improving rural supporting facilities and carrying out agricultural technical training; in Djibouti, it has promoted solar energy storage systems to alleviate the difficulty of electricity use for poor families.
Creating a model of telling China's story well. Based on overseas project practice, it proactively tells stories of integrating into local communities, creating employment, promoting development, and improving people's livelihoods in local media. It has organized more than 500 overseas trainees from 74 countries to come to China for exchanges, encouraging trainees to share their experiences in China and enhancing overseas people's understanding of China.
(Compiled by Meng Fanzhe, reporter of People's Daily)
Leveraging Industrial and Financial Advantages and Sharing Development Outcomes
Zhang Wenwu, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Vice Chairman, and General Manager of CITIC Group
CITIC Group adheres to internationalized and open development, relies on its comprehensive advantages of simultaneous development of industry and finance, actively implements the Belt and Road Initiative, and has laid out more than 100 institutions in key regions such as Central Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, North Africa, and South America.
Finding its position in serving the overall national interest. As the largest direct financing institution and comprehensive asset management institution in China and a leading cross-border financial service institution, CITIC Group has carried out special actions for cross-border finance, providing one-stop solutions for enterprises expanding business overseas, including comprehensive finance, mergers and acquisitions and restructuring, industrial docking, and policy advisory services.
Gaining development through deep cultivation of markets. CITIC Construction, CITIC Environment, and CITIC Resources have implemented more than 100 projects in Belt and Road partner countries, helping local development in light of local conditions.
Deepening friendship through sharing outcomes. Longping High-Tech has long carried out international agricultural assistance, having implemented more than 260 sessions of foreign aid training, covering more than 100 countries and over 11,000 agricultural professionals. CITIC Press has published books such as The Belt and Road Initiative as Seen by Ambassadors of Various Countries. It has created public welfare projects such as the CITIC (Angola) Centennial Vocational School and the Myanmar Rural Public Welfare Fund, making the Belt and Road Initiative a road of happiness and a bridge of connection that benefits all parties.
CITIC Group will continue to enhance its comprehensive financial service capabilities and promote the deep integration of advanced technology, standards, and management experience with the industrial practices of Belt and Road partner countries. It will expand copyright trade and thematic publishing cooperation, strengthen exchanges with media from all countries, tell authentic and vivid Silk Road stories, and jointly paint a new picture of Belt and Road cooperation.
(Compiled by Chen Junyi, reporter of People's Daily)
Return to TopPromoting Mutual Learning Among Civilizations and People-to-People Bonds Through Distinctive Cultural Tourism Products
Shi Dai, Chairman of China Tourism Group
Tourism is an important channel for exchange among different countries and cultures. As a central enterprise with tourism as its main business, China Tourism Group leverages its advantages across the entire industrial chain, deeply integrates into the high-quality joint development of the Belt and Road Initiative, and serves as a promoter of mutual learning among civilizations, a participant in people-to-people bonds, and a practitioner of friendly cooperation.
China Tourism Group is committed to creating a new window for mutual learning among civilizations and telling new stories of people-to-people bonds. Relying on the first domestically built large cruise ship, the "Adora Magic City," it has launched cultural-themed voyages and original song-and-dance shows, inaugurated the "Starlight · Lancang-Mekong" cross-border tourist train, developed nearly 100 Belt and Road-themed tourism routes, and leveraged overseas visa centers, hotels, and other venues to spread China's fine traditional culture. For six consecutive years, it has hosted the "Discover the Beauty of China" series of events for foreign diplomats in China, and hosted the China-Vietnam "Red Study Tour," making China's credible, lovable, and respectable image more three-dimensional and vivid.
As of the end of 2025, China Tourism Group has invested more than 65 billion yuan in countries and regions jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative, established multiple overseas duty-free and boutique stores, helped Chinese brands set sail for global markets, and built new bridges for economic and trade cooperation.
Looking to the future, China Tourism Group will adhere to shaping tourism through culture and showcasing culture through tourism, creating more cultural tourism brands and distinctive products with Chinese cultural characteristics and international influence, injecting a steady stream of cultural tourism momentum into telling China's story well and spreading China's voice, and contributing to promoting the high-quality development of the Belt and Road Initiative.
(Compiled by Zheng Hao)
Promoting Cross-Cultural Dialogue and Creating an Open, Trustworthy Environment
Galina Baityerek, President of the Information and Publishing Group of Kyrgyzstan's "Slovo Kyrgyzstana" (Flag) Newspaper
Over the past decade or more, the Belt and Road Initiative has become an important direction for international cooperation, covering infrastructure, economic and trade exchanges, people-to-people and cultural exchanges, and other fields. In this process, the media conveys information to society, shapes public perceptions of other countries and regions, promotes cross-cultural dialogue, and deepens mutual understanding among the peoples of all countries.
Today, interaction between Kyrgyz and Chinese media has become an important means of strengthening bilateral relations and people-to-people and cultural exchanges. The establishment of a partnership between People's Daily and the Information and Publishing Group of Kyrgyzstan's "Slovo Kyrgyzstana" (Flag) Newspaper is of special significance to us. In May 2026, during the Kyrgyz-China Media Cooperation Forum held in Bishkek, the two sides signed a memorandum of understanding on bilateral cooperation. We regard this document not only as confirmation of the common will of both sides, but also as a cornerstone for sustained, long-term professional cooperation.
At present, global media are undergoing digital transformation, and social media digital platforms and artificial intelligence technologies are profoundly changing the way information is created, disseminated, and consumed. The experience of Chinese media in digitizing editorial processes, developing multimedia platforms, and applying modern technologies to journalistic practice is of important reference value to us. Technological progress will not shake the fundamental principles of the journalism industry, and we are willing to work with media from all countries to jointly create an open and trustworthy environment.
(Compiled by People's Daily reporter Sun Longfei)
Accelerating the Upgrade from "Products Going Global" to "Ecosystem Going Global"
Zhao Fei, General Manager of China Changan Automobile Group Co., Ltd.
China Changan Automobile actively integrates into the high-quality joint development of the Belt and Road Initiative, and has now formed a global R&D layout spanning "five countries and nine locations," built three digital-intelligent new energy vehicle brands—Avatr, Deepal, and Changan Qiyuan—and deeply integrated into the global automotive industry landscape. From January to October this year, overseas sales reached 830,000 vehicles, up 58.7 percent year on year, with products sold to 149 countries and regions.
We are embedding the industrial chain deeper and accelerating the upgrade from "products going global" to "ecosystem going global." We are deepening our global layout, having completed 22 global vehicle manufacturing bases and 15 overseas KD plants, with overseas controllable production capacity reaching 446,000 vehicles.
We are establishing service standards so that Chinese services, Chinese brands, and Chinese automobiles go global together. We continue to build the "with U" global service brand, have established 108 parts warehouses overseas, employ nearly 20,000 overseas professional service personnel, and have won multiple globalization brand awards, achieving an upgrade from products going global to brand value going global. At the same time, we actively promote the "one calculation, multiple recognitions" approach for automotive carbon footprint, and participate in international projects such as Peru's "Luban Workshop" and Saudi Arabia's desertification prevention and control, fully demonstrating corporate responsibility.
In September this year, the first self-developed one-stage end-to-end intelligent driving assistance system by a central enterprise, "Tianshu Linghang," was launched on the Changan Qiyuan Q06, bringing global consumers the hard power of original Chinese technology and the aesthetic experience of Eastern flowing light. Its debut at the Belt and Road Media Cooperation Forum also won praise from guests at home and abroad.
Looking to the future, China Changan Automobile will adhere to long-termism and be a credible and reliable industrial partner for countries and regions jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative.
(Compiled by People's Daily reporter Rong Yi)
Guiding Capital Toward Long-Term Projects Such as Infrastructure and Production Capacity Cooperation
Xu Siwei, Chairman of China Guoxin Holdings Co., Ltd.
China Guoxin has always been committed to serving the national strategy, actively leveraging its role as a state-owned capital operating company through capital instruments such as fund investment, equity operations, and industrial cultivation. Over the past decade or more, China Guoxin has worked alongside more than 40 enterprises and over 100 projects, with cumulative overseas project investment exceeding US$38 billion, of which projects jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative account for about 80 percent.
We are cultivators of patient capital, enriching new momentum for Silk Road development. Adhering to the financial logic of "patient capital, long-term capital, strategic capital," we guide capital toward long-term projects such as infrastructure and production capacity cooperation in countries jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative, going beyond traditional short-term commercial returns and placing greater emphasis on promoting regional connectivity and deepening the shared development of international production capacity cooperation.
We are enablers of industry-finance cooperation, channeling new vitality into Silk Road construction. Relying on the "finance + industry" cooperation model, we enhance cross-border capital connectivity, joint project development, and resource coordination capabilities, explore new mechanisms for overseas capital operations, create innovative financial products, smooth channels for interconnection between domestic and overseas capital markets, foster a sound investment ecosystem, and help achieve more stable "going global" and better "bringing in."
We are tellers of Silk Road stories, amplifying the good voice of Silk Road cooperation. As capital goes global, stories spread far and wide. We look forward to deepening practical cooperation with Chinese and foreign media friends, telling the Silk Road story of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits with vivid writing and diverse perspectives, so that the foundation of people-to-people bonds becomes even deeper.
(Compiled by People's Daily reporter Yang Yang)
Creating a More Equitable Future Full of Opportunities and Hope
Viasen Soobramoney, Chief Executive Officer of Independent Online News Network of South Africa
The theme of this forum states a fact: although countries differ in history, culture, language, and national conditions, the people's pursuit of a better life is universal. People of all countries hope to safeguard peace, promote development, and create a more equitable future full of opportunities and hope for themselves and future generations. How to translate these common aspirations into concrete action is an important issue facing the international community.
In the face of challenges to global development, the international community should work together to promote the building of a more equitable and just international order, creating favorable conditions for all countries, especially developing countries, to achieve common development.
The exchanges and cooperation between China and Africa and other countries of the Global South provide an important platform for advancing the above goals. The Belt and Road Initiative, with connectivity, infrastructure construction, and economic cooperation as its key focus areas, has created opportunities for countries to strengthen development cooperation and achieve common prosperity. For African countries, cooperation in infrastructure construction, industrialization, skills training, digital connectivity, and trade facilitation helps enhance self-development capacity and advance the achievement of economic and social development goals.
As media, we bear the responsibility of continuously consolidating these people-to-people bonds. Let us jointly promote media exchanges, replace suspicion with cooperation, resolve differences through dialogue, ensure that diversity and differences are respected, and let our cooperation help build a more equitable and inclusive world.
(Compiled by People's Daily reporter Sun Yahui)
Helping Build a Fair and Just Global Governance System
Li Xiangyang, Member of the Academic Division of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Researcher at the Institute of Asia-Pacific and Global Strategy
The Belt and Road Initiative is neither a simple replication of the existing global governance system nor a new stove built outside the current system, but rather a contribution to building a fair and just global governance system.
It pursues a development orientation. The existing global governance system follows a rules orientation—setting rules first and then discussing cooperation—which shuts out many developing countries. The Belt and Road Initiative, by contrast, discusses cooperation first and sets rules later, without preconditions, building a truly open new model of international cooperation.
It creates dynamic comparative advantages. Under the existing system, underdeveloped countries are marginalized because they lack the basic conditions for participating in the international division of labor. The Belt and Road Initiative advocates infrastructure connectivity, which both develops and utilizes existing comparative advantages and creates new comparative advantages for underdeveloped countries, helping boost their economic takeoff.
It adheres to the principle of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits. The rules of the Belt and Road Initiative are jointly formulated by participants, and it possesses the attributes of an international public good, promoting the building of a fair and just global governance system. The Belt and Road Initiative rejects utilitarianism, puts righteousness first and pursues both righteousness and benefit, combines giving more and taking less with normal commercial cooperation, and explores new paths of economic diplomacy for shared development.
It promotes building a community with a shared future for mankind. As the world undergoes profound changes unseen in a century, the Belt and Road Initiative, with the "five types of connectivity" as its focus, echoes the four major global initiatives and provides solutions for addressing the "four deficits" in global governance and reforming the global governance system.
(Compiled by People's Daily reporter Wang Xuchen)
Warm Ice and Hot Snow, Enriching a Different Tourism Experience
Huang Fang, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Liaoning Province
Liaoning Province is located on the golden ice and snow belt at 42 degrees north latitude, characterized by being "not too cold, not too far, not too difficult, and not too expensive." Not too cold means the winter temperatures are relatively moderate; not too far means transportation is convenient; not too difficult means Liaoning has a large number of beginner ski slopes; and not too expensive means the cost-performance ratio is high.
In winter, Liaoning is cold outdoors, but warm as spring indoors. Cultural and museum venues, intangible cultural heritage experience halls, and the like are spread throughout the province, allowing visitors to immersively experience the region's thousand-year cultural heritage. In winter, Liaoning's warm ice and hot snow are the most captivating. Liaoning's hot springs are rich in variety and endowed with different characteristics, such as Benxi's high-temperature artesian springs and Fuxin's sodium bicarbonate hot springs. In Liaoning, one can race down ski slopes in the morning, soak in hot springs to relax in the afternoon, and savor Liaoning cuisine in the evening, fully enjoying the unique "ice-fire alternation" wellness rhythm.
As a transportation hub in Northeast Asia, Shenyang and Dalian are eligible for the 240-hour visa-free transit policy, and inbound tourism is rapidly rising, with tourists from many countries arriving in droves. Liaoning, together with neighboring provinces, is jointly building an "ice and snow corridor," linking border scenery routes with high-speed rail ice and snow routes and launching diverse ice and snow joint-tour products; together with Heilongjiang, it has created the "Ice and Snow Polar Region + Coastal Hot Springs" route; and the "Snowy Realm and Spring Realm · Play on Ice, Soak in Warmth Wellness Tour" integrates ice and snow sports, hot spring therapy, traditional Chinese medicine physiotherapy, and sightseeing, with broad market potential.
Regional cooperation is most valuable when we join hands. Liaoning is willing to serve as the gateway for ice and snow tourism in Northeast China, leveraging its high-quality ice and snow, wellness hot springs, convenient customs clearance, and rich tourism experiences to connect the cultural tourism of the Northeast, seeking common development and creating a shared future.
(Compiled by People's Daily reporter Fang Yuan)
Actively Building a Community of Shared Interests in Energy Cooperation
Chen Huailong, General Manager of PetroChina International Exploration and Development Co., Ltd.
PetroChina actively responds to the Belt and Road Initiative, fully implements the new energy security strategy of "four revolutions and one cooperation," and actively builds a community of shared interests in energy cooperation.
We serve as promoters of connectivity. PetroChina's oil and gas equity production in countries jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative has remained above 80 million tons for seven consecutive years, accounting for about 83 percent of PetroChina's overseas oil and gas equity production, effectively promoting local energy industry construction and economic and social development; the total mileage of oil and gas pipelines constructed and operated overseas exceeds 10,000 kilometers, opening up diversified energy channels for countries and regions along the pipeline routes.
We serve as exemplars of pragmatic energy cooperation. Demonstrating through new models, PetroChina adheres to leveraging its integrated advantages, combining them with internationalized operating models and establishing stable cooperative relationships with nearly 20 international enterprises; empowering through new technologies, PetroChina's mature and complete oil and gas development technologies provide strong support for host countries to revitalize oil and gas reserves and unleash production capacity potential; pooling wisdom through new platforms, dialogue platforms led by PetroChina, such as the oil and gas cooperation roundtable and the International Energy Development Summit Forum, have contributed Chinese wisdom to optimizing energy governance and green and low-carbon transformation.
We serve as promoters of people-to-people bonds. We actively participate in public welfare undertakings in countries jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative, including healthcare and education support, with cumulative public welfare investment exceeding US$150 million, benefiting more than 3 million local people; adhering to the principle of "localization, professionalization, and marketization of overseas talent," we have cumulatively created more than 100,000 jobs in countries jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative.
(Compiled by People's Daily reporter Zhang Wenhao)
Advancing the Shift from "Product Orientation" to "Demand Orientation"
Shan Yanzhong, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the Trade Union of Kweichow Moutai Distillery (Group) Co., Ltd.
Like-minded partners transcend mountains and seas to jointly brew a better life. Moutai is willing to join hands with partners from all walks of life at home and abroad, using liquor as a medium, telling the story of Chinese brands well, and jointly painting a new picture of Silk Road cooperation.
We continue to consolidate the foundation of quality. Relying on its ecological endowment of diverse and balanced "water, soil, climate, and biology," Moutai transforms regional resource advantages into quantifiable and verifiable quality indicators. On the one hand, we adhere to traditional brewing techniques; on the other hand, we leverage biotechnology and digital means to refine production processes and precisely control quality with scientific thinking, enabling global consumers to form a solid ecological identity and quality trust in Moutai's full product matrix.
We adhere to a consumer-centered approach. Moutai is deeply implementing its "comprehensive shift to C" strategy, advancing a quality management innovation from "product orientation" to "demand orientation"; we actively expand consumption scenarios, such as developing daily consumption scenarios like casual gatherings with friends and family reunions, and revitalizing industrial cultural heritage to create liquor-tourism integrated projects. Relying on digital self-operated channels to bring a fair, authentic, and convenient consumption experience, we enable consumers to gain emotional resonance in a warm life experience.
We tell the story of Chinese brands well. Moutai has always regarded "culture going global" as the premise and foundation for advancing internationalization, creating multiple overseas cultural IPs and using narratives that overseas consumers can understand and feel, allowing Chinese baijiu culture to gradually integrate into overseas life scenarios. We uphold the concept of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, jointly build platforms for industry dialogue, exchange, and collaborative cooperation, deeply practice the concept of sustainable development, achieve a win-win pattern of industrial development, and also consolidate the overseas development foundation for the dissemination of national brands.
(Compiled by Shi Qingchuan, reporter for China Economic Weekly)
Taking the Path of Green Transformation for Resource-Based Enterprises
Gao Zhijun, Chairman of Shaanxi Yulin Energy Group Co., Ltd.
Yulin Energy Group is a backbone energy and chemical enterprise in Shaanxi Province, having built a "4+N" industrial pattern with four main sectors—coal, electric power, chemicals, and new materials—developing in coordination with multiple supporting sectors. In recent years, we have adhered to a coal-based, multi-wheel-driven approach, taking the path of green transformation for resource-based enterprises.
Yulin has excellent coal endowments. Yulin Energy Group continues to advance the intelligent and green transformation of mines, build demonstration projects for water-preserved coal mining, steadily release advanced production capacity, give priority to ensuring domestic energy supply, and coordinate ecological protection in development.
In the coal chemical sector, Yulin Energy Group focuses on the directions of high-end, diversified, and low-carbon development, overcoming key technologies such as "oxygen-enriched dry distillation," extending industrial chains for coal-based polyester fiber and coal-based epoxy resin, and promoting the transformation of coal from fuel to high-end chemical raw materials. In terms of logistics corridors, Yulin Energy Group relies on key corridors such as the Haoji Railway and the Wari Railway and important ports such as Rizhao Port and Qinhuangdao Port, accelerating the construction of rail-water intermodal transport projects, laying out international land port collection and distribution hubs, and building an integrated rail-road-port-shipping transportation and sales system to stably deliver energy to regions such as Central China and East China.
Building on the foundation of international trade in energy and chemical products such as coal and magnesium metal, Yulin Energy Group is accelerating its extension into deeper areas such as industrial collaboration and technological coordination, strengthening alignment in areas such as clean coal utilization, high-end chemicals, and magnesium-based new materials, advancing investment in overseas projects such as natural gas chemicals in Central Asian countries, and actively integrating into the high-quality joint development of the Belt and Road Initiative.
(Compiled by Nie Yinghao, reporter for Securities Times)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王明峰
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How can moral education work be more thorough and more effective? How can the "small classroom" of ideological and political education and the "big classroom" of society be effectively integrated? Sichuan has provided the answer through more than a decade of exploration.
From the launch of character education research projects in 2014 to the present, character education has covered 21 cities and prefectures and more than 3,700 schools across Sichuan, forming a complete demonstration network spanning from kindergarten to secondary school. On campus, character education covers every stage of student growth, turning grand principles into good habits that young people use daily without conscious awareness; off campus, ideological and political courses have become an educational practice in which everyone participates, that happens everywhere, and that grows at all times, with the fruits of character education radiating to many regions.
"Press one down, weave one over — I did it!" In a classroom at Xuefu Primary School in Chongzhou City, Chengdu, Sichuan, a student named Xiaowen finished weaving a sturdy bamboo fruit basket.
At this century-old school, bamboo weaving is an important vehicle for character education. "This is not just a handicraft class," said homeroom teacher Wang Qian. In the process of weaving bamboo articles, the children learn "concentration" — concentrating with all one's might (全神贯注, quan shen guan zhu - "entire, spirit, concentrate, attention") on doing one thing well; they practice "orderliness" — the weaving process is orderly and well-organized (井井有条, jing jing you tiao - "well, well, have, order"); and they experience "patriotism" — Daoming bamboo weaving, as a national-level intangible cultural heritage, is a precious cultural legacy…
A bamboo weaving class is precisely a vivid microcosm of Sichuan using character education to empower the "great ideological and political course."
Turning abstract values into concrete behaviors that students can understand and carry out
In a classroom of Class 1, Grade 1 at Shishang School in Longquanyi District, Chengdu, assistant to the principal Gui Yun picked up a small "character passbook." Flipping open a page, childish handwriting read: "March 13, I voluntarily mopped the classroom floor; March 28, I voluntarily massaged my grandparents' backs." At the bottom of the page was also a teacher's comment: "Thumbs up! You are a good example for your classmates!"
"We always ask the children: today, what did you accomplish?" Gui Yun said. The school sets a dedicated character cultivation theme each semester and records students' real behaviors through the character passbook.
This is precisely the starting point of character education: turning abstract values into concrete behaviors that children can understand and carry out.
Why start with concrete behaviors?
In its research, the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Educational Sciences found that many moral education workers face the same dilemma when carrying out ideological and political education: some students can recite the core socialist values from memory, yet will not voluntarily bend down to pick up trash in the hallway; they can fluently recount the heroic deeds of revolutionary martyrs, yet are unwilling to voluntarily share family responsibilities… Grand principles find it difficult to manifest in the daily behaviors of young people.
Character education is precisely aimed at solving this dilemma.
A relevant official of the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Educational Sciences introduced that character education breaks down the core socialist values into 24 specific character traits that can be recognized, trained, and evaluated, including concentration, orderliness, friendliness, gratitude, patriotism, responsibility, resilience, honesty… arranged in progressive layers across four learning stages — lower primary, upper primary, junior secondary, and senior secondary — to help students transform value concepts into concrete behavioral habits.
In 2014, the provincial key research project "Research on the Theory and Practice of Character Education in Primary and Secondary Schools" was approved; in 2021, character education was extended to preschool education. From the initial pilot in Chengdu to today's coverage of 21 cities and prefectures across the province, more than 3,700 schools, and the selection of more than 500 demonstration schools, fully connecting the preschool, primary, junior secondary, and senior secondary stages, with educational achievements radiating to Shanghai, Guangdong, Chongqing, and other places, this exploration has spanned more than a decade.
The "greatness" of the "great ideological and political course" has found a solid foothold
When the bell rang for the end of class, Zhou Qiang, principal of Chengdu Jinhui Tianfu Primary School, was surrounded by a crowd of children. He smiled and asked a little boy beside him, "Do you do chores at home?"
The child nodded proudly: "I wash dishes, sweep the floor, and wipe the windows at home, and I keep at it every day!"
The school's character education theme this semester is "diligence," and this week's character goal is "share household chores, take responsibility for one household task, and persist in it over the long term." This goal is posted in the most prominent position in the classroom and is also carried out in the children's actions every day.
On campus, elements of character education can be seen everywhere. On the cultural wall in the first-floor lobby, character role models are posted; in the open library, cushions printed with students' hand-drawn character sprites are placed; in the classroom corridors, handicraft works themed on character traits such as "diligence" and "patriotism" are displayed… Vice Principal Chen Yan explained: "The inner and outer walls of every classroom are decorated with character elements, including posted character stars and weekly character goals, so that children can constantly feel the power of character in their environment."
On the day of the reporter's visit, Chengdu Jinhui Tianfu Primary School was holding a competition on infusing character education into subject teaching. In Chinese language class, classic texts were used to analyze "integrity"; in art class, painting was used to express "creativity"; in physical education class, team competition was used to reinforce "cooperation."
Zhou Qiang believes that moral education is no longer merely a "one-man show" in ideological and political classes, but rather a "grand chorus" with infiltration across all subjects and participation by all.
In Zigong City, Sichuan, character education has crossed the school walls. Relying on red resources such as the "Hometown of Sister Jiang" and the "Former Residence of Wu Yuzhang," Zigong has developed ideological and political study tour routes; as of 2025, more than 300,000 students have participated. When character education steps out of the classroom and into society, the ideological and political course is no longer a matter of one textbook and one classroom, but a "great social course."
To teach this "great course" well, schools alone are not enough. Luzhou County's Chengdong Primary School in Luzhou City has extended character education into the family. During parent-child study activities, parents and children joined hands to visit the Chuanjiang Family Traditions Hall and the Song Dynasty Stone Carving Museum, immersively reading fine family traditions and appreciating traditional virtues. After the activity, one parent said with deep feeling: "Letting children learn to be filial to elders and being honest and trustworthy (诚实守信, cheng shi shou xin - "honest, keep, trust, credit") through the stories of people around them works far better than any preaching."
From campus to society, from classroom to family, character education covers every stage of student growth; ideological and political courses have become an educational practice in which everyone participates, that happens everywhere, and that grows at all times. The "greatness" of the "great ideological and political course" has found a solid foothold.
Turning character from an external requirement into part of self-awareness
Character education also faces a problem that cannot be avoided: how to evaluate its effects?
Traditional moral education evaluation often amounts to a comment at the end of the term: "This student's ideological and moral character is good." The real process of a student's character growth cannot be seen or touched, and evaluation finds it difficult to play a guiding and motivating role.
To solve the dilemma of weak evaluation, many schools have adopted points-based and bonus-point models, relying on external rewards and punishments to mobilize student enthusiasm. This can have a certain motivating effect in the short term, but in the long run it is not conducive to students forming moral self-discipline from within.
Aware of this problem, Chengdu Shengfei School broke out of the fixed mindset of quantitative rewards and punishments and innovatively launched "character praise," a completely new evaluation method.
Zhou Jianjun, a teacher at the school, showed the reporter a photograph while explaining this evaluation method. A boy stood in front of the blackboard, and in a corner of the blackboard were written the three characters "Junwen Class." "Junwen" was precisely the name of this boy.
"The reason this class was named after this child is that he was extremely conscientious in class service. This is similar to how studios are established in various industries under the names of outstanding exemplary figures," Zhou Jianjun said. "For a child with a sense of responsibility, we praise him by saying 'you are a responsible child,' and take him as an example, allowing him to form an identity."
The logic of bonus points is "you did this thing, therefore you have this character trait"; the logic of character praise is "you inherently possess this character trait, and your behavior just now confirmed it." The former is external motivation; the latter is internal recognition.
When a child establishes an identity, character turns from an external requirement into part of self-awareness, and moral self-discipline grows from within.
This is precisely a vivid microcosm of Sichuan's "four-dimensional integrated" evaluation system for character education, which tracks and records the entire process from four dimensions — behavior, persistence, consistency, and development — intuitively displaying the trajectory of students' character growth as they make steady progress in an orderly fashion (循序渐进, xun xu jian jin - "follow, sequence, gradually, advance").
In 2026, the Sichuan New Century Character Education Research Institute conducted a survey, and the data intuitively confirmed the effectiveness of the practice. 98.2% of teachers believed that character education was more practical than traditional moral education; 92.53% of parents believed that character education could help children develop better habits; 83.76% of parents observed positive changes in their children through character education; and 98.21% of parents believed it was necessary to further strengthen character education.
When character becomes a high-frequency word of praise on campus, and when every tiny act of kindness is seen and valued, character education no longer needs an exam paper or a score to prove its existence.
(Yuan Manni participated in the writing and reporting)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王东辉
"So this is how cooking oil is produced." At the Yihai Kerry (Chongqing) Grain and Oil Co., Ltd. transparent factory, a group of children stood on the visiting corridor of the cooking oil bottling workshop, curiously watching the cooking oil production process through the glass windows. Beside them, a guide explained in detail the quality control process for cooking oil: "The oil that has just come off the production line looks a bit cloudy because it has been filled with nitrogen for preservation, which means no preservatives need to be added."
In the rice production workshop, impurity removal, husking, rice milling, polishing, color sorting, and packaging are done in one continuous motion (一气呵成, yi qi he cheng - "one, breath, complete, succeed"). At the end of the visiting corridor for the flour workshop, a table full of assorted pastries came into view, with a rich wheat aroma. The children tasted the pastries while looking at the production line through the glass windows — the flour used for these pastries, it turned out, came from the very production line before their eyes.
Since 2008, Yihai Kerry Arawana Holdings Co., Ltd. has gradually opened up its transparent factories. This year, the company also held a series of factory tour activities with stronger interactivity, inviting consumers to visit in person the fully automated cooking oil, rice, and flour production lines, to learn about the entire process from raw material screening and intelligent processing to finished product packaging, and to receive food safety and nutrition education as well as food tasting.
Beneath the interesting format lies a transparent food safety science popularization effort, and also an on-site observation of the enterprise's food safety control system.
"Food safety is the lifeblood of an enterprise." Pan Kun, food safety director of Yihai Kerry Arawana, said that organizing transparent factory science popularization activities serves two purposes: on the one hand, it can showcase the effectiveness of the enterprise's food safety control, achieving better educational results; on the other hand, it can also urge the enterprise to further consolidate its food safety defense line. At present, the enterprise has established more than 80 transparent factories, cumulatively receiving over 2 million visitors.
The grain and oil industry faces pain points such as dispersed raw materials, long processing chains, and great difficulty in quality control across all product categories. In response, Yihai Kerry Arawana has assembled a professional quality management team of more than 2,500 people, covering the entire process of raw material procurement, production and processing, and warehousing and logistics, achieving traceability of product sources and destinations, and empowering with technology to build a whole-chain control system from field to table.
In the fields, the enterprise strictly tests for aflatoxin and other components in raw materials during procurement; in the quality inspection room, inspectors use advanced equipment to conduct strict inspections of various components in raw materials; on the production line, fully enclosed processing creates a sterile environment; on supermarket shelves, products are subject to unannounced spot checks from time to time... "'Born for the food safety and health of the nation' is the original aspiration of the enterprise, and also the main thread running through its development," said Jiang Yuanrong, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and director of the Public Affairs Department of Yihai Kerry Arawana. Following this main thread, the enterprise will closely align with national strategies, respond to the needs of people's livelihoods, and consolidate the safety bottom line, achieving an upgrade in the direction of nutrition and health.
Return to TopIn recent years, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, based on its resource endowments and industrial foundation, has actively explored a new path of high-quality development suited to Xinjiang's characteristics. The wine industry is a shining calling card of Xinjiang's high-quality industrial development. In 2025, Xinjiang's wine output reached 84,000 tons, with sales revenue reaching 708 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12%, achieving a strong rise during the industry's deep adjustment period. The production capacity of base wine ranks first in the country, with 134 wineries and production enterprises, placing the number among the top in the country. A pattern of coordinated development has taken shape across the four core sub-producing regions — the northern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains, the Yili River Valley, the Yanqi Basin, and the Turpan-Hami Basin — together with the Aksu Musalais specialty producing region. From long-term base wine export to opening up the national market with independent brands, Xinjiang's wine industry is leaping toward a high-value industry.
Precise policy drip-irrigation, putting "good steel" on the "blade's edge" of transformation
Good wine is grown, but a good industry is sold. The long-standing model of mainly selling base wine externally cannot fully leverage the advantages and characteristics of Xinjiang's wine industry, with the shortcomings in brand building and market development being particularly prominent. The Party Committee and government of the autonomous region attach great importance to the development of the wine industry. In recent years, centering on the work approach of "reducing inventory, boosting sales, and building brands," Xinjiang has systematically constructed a policy system for the wine industry. The special fund for wine industry development established in 2023 has continued to exert its effect, and through project guidance, it has precisely empowered the industry to improve quality and increase efficiency, with wineries beginning to shift from "burying their heads in winemaking" to "raising their heads to look at the market." In May 2026, the "Seven Policy Measures Supporting the Development of the Wine Industry" were issued, covering the entire chain from base subsidies and loan interest discounts to brand promotion and market development, aiming to fully leverage Xinjiang's resource endowments and unique advantages and promote the high-quality development of the wine industry.
The major producing region brand takes root, shifting from "each shouting for itself" to "speaking with one voice"
Acting in isolation without support (单打独斗, dan da du dou - "single, strike, single, fight") can hardly achieve anything; only through united development is there a way forward. For a long time, fragmented brands and low recognition have been the core pain point in the development of Xinjiang's wine industry. In August 2026, the brand image of the Xinjiang wine major producing region, promoted under the leadership of the Forestry and Grassland Bureau of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, was officially released, with the "Xinjiang Wine" logo and the promotional slogan "Fine Wine Intoxicates Xinjiang" unveiled simultaneously, symbolizing the industry's endless vitality. The brand's core concept has been distilled into "3O": Original, rooted in Xinjiang's cultural confidence as the birthplace of Chinese wine; Oriental, pursuing a soft and subtle Oriental flavor expression; and Organic, anchoring on natural and pure premium quality. In building a public brand for Xinjiang wine, the aim is to unite the strength of all producing regions and enterprises, develop in unity, and contribute Xinjiang's strength to bringing Chinese wine to the world. The establishment of this brand framework marks the shift of Xinjiang's wine industry from enterprises acting in isolation to the integrated output of the producing region, providing a unified narrative entry point for subsequent market promotion.
Market development achieves notable results, shifting from "producing region exhibition" to "channel implementation"
The effectiveness of policies and brands must ultimately be tested in the market. Since 2025, the Forestry and Grassland Bureau of the autonomous region has coordinated and organized a series of high-specification market development activities: at the 114th National Sugar and Wine Commodities Fair, Xinjiang winery enterprises signed contracts exceeding 10 million yuan; at the "TGA|Qingzhuo Award" selection of the 24th China International Alcoholic Beverages Expo, multiple new products combining terroir characteristics and craft innovation won awards in the wine category, accounting for over 40% of the winners; multiple products were showcased at the 17th Hong Kong International Wine & Spirits Fair, enhancing the international visibility of the "Xinjiang Wine" brand; at the 2026 International Wine and Spirits Trade Exhibition, an innovative "Wine Specialty Mixology Bar" and an interactive classroom called "Winemaker's Hour" were created, and the cross-industry route "Xinjiang Tipsy Ski Season" was launched, using immersive experiences to push the brand "beyond its circle"; during the 2026 Xinjiang Silk Road Wine Festival, a high-specification special tasting event was held for the first time in conjunction with the international institution Decanter World Wine Awards, with 16 projects successfully signed, covering core areas of the entire industrial chain including supply chain entry, pre-warehouse construction, packaging design upgrades, and winery investment, and 7 wineries from the northern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains collectively entered the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area supply chain, with procurement cooperation covering the Yangtze River Delta, East China, and South China markets.
From the systematic deployment of the seven policy measures, to the official implementation of the major producing region brand, to substantive breakthroughs in domestic and international markets, Xinjiang's wine industry is forming a verifiable and traceable development path. Policy dividends are continuously being released, brand competitiveness is continuously being strengthened, and the value of the entire chain is continuously rising. In the next step, the Forestry and Grassland Bureau of the autonomous region will, in accordance with the "Seven Policy Measures Supporting the Development of the Wine Industry" and the "Implementation Plan for the Construction of the Wine Industry Chain in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (2026–2030)," continue to follow up on the promotion and implementation of the major producing region brand, conduct dynamic monitoring and evaluation of policy implementation effects and key industrial development indicators, and promote Xinjiang wine to go more steadily and further on the path of branding and industrialization.
Data source: Forestry and Grassland Bureau of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
Return to TopBy: 健康时报记者 石梦竹
November 14 this year marks the twentieth "United Nations Diabetes Day," with this year's theme being "Early Detection, Early Action."
Blood glucose-related topics have drawn widespread attention. Not only do middle-aged and elderly people place importance on controlling blood glucose, but many young people are also actively discussing related topics. Some check themselves against online high blood glucose self-test checklists, while others give up staple foods entirely to control their sugar…
What symptoms accompany elevated blood glucose? What is the relationship between insulin resistance and diabetes? What are good methods for controlling blood glucose?
Normal blood glucose does not mean everything is going well (万事大吉, wan shi da ji - "ten thousand, matters, all, auspicious")
Diabetes cannot be simply understood as "high blood glucose"; its essence is a systemic disorder of glucose metabolism that simultaneously affects the metabolism of fats, proteins, and other substances.
Diabetes is mainly divided into type 1, type 2, gestational, and special types of diabetes, which differ in etiology and insulin secretion capacity: type 1 involves absolute insulin deficiency and is relatively rare; type 2 is characterized mainly by insulin resistance and insufficient insulin secretion, and is also the most common type of diabetes; gestational diabetes is detected during pregnancy; special types have other clear etiologies.
"Before a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, the body has often long since sent out signals, and insulin resistance is one manifestation." Pan Qi (潘琦), standing committee member and secretary-general of the Diabetes Branch of the Chinese Medical Association and chief physician of the Endocrinology Department of Beijing Hospital, explained that insulin is secreted by β cells in the pancreatic islets, and its main role is to help glucose in the blood enter muscle, liver, and fat cells for the body to use or store, while also inhibiting the liver from continuing to release glucose into the blood.
When the body's cells become sluggish in responding to insulin, insulin resistance occurs. To maintain blood glucose within the normal range, pancreatic islet β cells can only compensate by secreting more insulin, forming hyperinsulinemia. Long-term high insulin promotes fat synthesis and visceral fat accumulation, further aggravating insulin resistance, and keeps pancreatic islet β cells working under overload for a prolonged period, forming a vicious cycle (恶性循环, e xing xun huan - "evil, kind, cycle, circle").
In the early stage of insulin resistance, indicators such as fasting blood glucose and glycated hemoglobin can be completely normal, but this is merely the result of the body "barely holding blood glucose in check by secreting more insulin"; at this point, postprandial blood glucose regulation abnormalities may already have appeared. After long-term compensation, islet function begins to decline, blood glucose rises beyond the normal range, and the condition gradually progresses to type 2 diabetes.
Insulin resistance is not an independent disease, but rather a hidden pathophysiological state. In its early stage it may be completely asymptomatic, but if the following conditions appear, attention should be paid.
Abdominal obesity. Waist circumference exceeds the standard, the limbs are relatively not fat, and weight loss is difficult.
Frequent hunger and pre-meal hypoglycemia. Before meals, palpitations, hand tremors, and sweating occur, with cravings for sweets or refined staple foods.
Skin changes. Skin on the neck, armpits, and other areas develops black, rough, hard-to-wash-clean acanthosis nigricans-like changes.
Endocrine disorders. Delayed menstruation, recurrent acne, and difficulty conceiving in women; declining energy in men, and so on.
Concurrently accompanied by multiple metabolic abnormalities and related conditions, such as fatty liver, elevated triglycerides, hyperuricemia, elevated blood pressure, sleep apnea, and so on.
Pan Qi reminded that lean individuals, or people with a normal BMI (body mass index) but excess visceral fat and low muscle mass, may also develop insulin resistance. Professional diagnosis requires blood tests for fasting insulin, blood glucose, and calculation of indicators such as the insulin resistance index; one cannot self-diagnose by matching symptoms.
Testing for diabetes likewise cannot rely on self-judgment. Clinically, the main indicators examined are fasting blood glucose, 2-hour postprandial blood glucose, and glycated hemoglobin, with an OGTT (oral glucose tolerance test) performed when necessary. At the same time, the insulin resistance index and testing of C-peptide (a substance produced synchronously when pancreatic islet β cells secrete insulin) are used to assess islet function and make a comprehensive judgment.
Insulin resistance has a reversible window period
Whether insulin resistance develops into type 2 diabetes hinges on two key points: the severity of the insulin resistance, and whether pancreatic islet β cells can continue to compensate. As long as β cell function remains adequate, blood glucose can be maintained within normal range; once β cells decline at an accelerated pace, causing compensation to be gradually exhausted, blood glucose will climb step by step.
Many factors accelerate this process: a family genetic history of diabetes, abdominal obesity, and continuous accumulation of visceral fat; long-term heavy intake of refined carbohydrates and sugary beverages, eating multiple times a day in addition to three meals, and imbalanced dietary structure; prolonged sitting and little activity, insufficient muscle mass, weight fluctuating repeatedly up and down, coupled with increasing age — all of these can induce or aggravate insulin resistance. In addition, long-term sleep deprivation, mental tension, excessive stress, and the like can further weaken the body's sensitivity to insulin.
Insulin resistance has a reversible window period. Man Fuli (满富丽), attending physician in the Endocrinology Department of Beijing Hospital, introduced that for most patients, after 3 to 6 months of standardized intervention, insulin, C-peptide, and blood glucose indicators can improve markedly. If the disease course is long and islet function impairment has already appeared, the focus is more on control and improvement, and it is very difficult to return completely to a fully healthy state. The key to reversal lies in lifestyle intervention, supplemented with medical means when necessary.
In terms of diet, priority should be given to reducing refined rice and flour products, sugary beverages, and highly processed desserts, and controlling total caloric intake. Increase whole grains, non-starchy vegetables, and sufficient high-quality protein.
In terms of exercise, engaging in more strength training can effectively improve insulin sensitivity. Perform resistance training 2 to 3 times per week, starting from 15 minutes per session, combined with 150 minutes per week of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise. However, overtraining that causes persistently elevated stress hormones such as cortisol should be avoided, as it can have a negative impact on insulin sensitivity.
For overweight or obese individuals with insulin resistance, using current body weight as the baseline, losing 5%–10% of body weight can improve insulin sensitivity. Those with normal weight or who are lean and have insulin resistance should increase muscle mass and reduce visceral fat while maintaining stable body weight.
For some office workers with irregular schedules, experts suggest fixing the wake-up time as much as possible and not delaying it just because one went to bed late the previous night; fragmented catch-up sleep can be used, long-term complete reversal of day and night should be avoided, and naps should be limited to 20 to 30 minutes. If one cannot eat meals on time, portable healthy foods should be kept on hand for appropriate supplementation to prevent binge eating after hunger; when dinner is too late, proactively reduce staple foods and avoid high-carbohydrate meals before bed. Get up and move after 30 minutes of sitting; avoid high-intensity workouts after staying up late — if one's condition is acceptable, engage in low-intensity activities such as stretching, brisk walking, or low-intensity bodyweight training such as wall sits.
Controlling sugar cannot blindly mean "cutting carbs"
Many sugar-control "tips" circulate on social media, and these cannot replace medical diagnosis and professional advice. For example, the eating order of "eat vegetables first, then protein, and staple foods last" — this technique does have a basis, as vegetables and protein can delay gastric emptying and lower the postprandial blood glucose peak. But adjusting eating order is only an auxiliary measure; if total staple food intake is not controlled, blood glucose will still rise excessively.
The claim that "eating rice after it has cooled down helps lower blood glucose" also has some basis — after rice cools, some starch is converted into resistant starch, and its glycemic effect decreases slightly. But the extent of the change is limited, and cold rice carries food safety risks; those with weak gastrointestinal function may experience discomfort from eating it.
Zuo Xiaoxia (左小霞), chief physician of the Nutrition Department of the Eighth Medical Center of the PLA General Hospital, introduced that the key to controlling sugar lies in optimizing the quality and quantity of carbohydrates, and one cannot blindly "cut carbs." Carbohydrates are the primary energy source for the brain, nervous system, and heart, and should account for about 50% of total daily energy intake. Long-term complete avoidance or extremely low intake of carbohydrates can lead to fatigue and weakness, decreased attention, poorer memory, irritability, insomnia, and so on. Some people who "cut carbs" for a long time are prone to retaliatory binge eating, which further undermines insulin sensitivity, and may also bring problems such as hair loss, gastrointestinal disorders, and abnormal blood lipids.
Whole grains and mixed legumes are high in fiber and resistant starch, and replacing some refined rice and white flour in staple foods with them is a preferred strategy for improving blood glucose. But large-scale, sudden, complete replacement may affect the sustainability of the diet and nutrient intake, and for people with weaker gastrointestinal function, it can easily cause bloating, stomach pain, and the like.
Many young people wear continuous glucose monitors out of concern about high blood glucose. Experts remind that continuous glucose monitors are not needed by everyone. Continuous glucose monitoring is a clinical management tool, mainly applicable to patients with a confirmed diabetes diagnosis who need fine-tuned medication adjustment or who have large blood glucose fluctuations, as well as some prediabetic individuals who need short-term wear after evaluation by a physician. Healthy people without high-risk factors such as a family history or obesity do not need to proactively wear them; those with high-risk factors may prefer to go to a hospital for professional screening first. Blindly following the trend of wearing a continuous glucose monitor may cause unnecessary anxiety due to operational errors and physiological fluctuations, and long-term excessive anxiety can in turn raise cortisol, aggravate insulin resistance, and trap one in a vicious cycle of "the more one worries, the worse one's metabolism becomes."
A reasonable lifestyle is the foundation of blood glucose management. Experts remind that diabetes is preventable and controllable: watch what you eat, keep moving, and sleep well. Annual screening of fasting blood glucose, glycated hemoglobin, and other indicators to detect metabolic abnormalities early — these are all practical "prescriptions" for protecting islet health.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 杨 昊
In the "Xiejing'an · Transfar Agri-Innovation Village" in Puyang Town, Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, inside a smart greenhouse, a tomato-picking robot extends its mechanical arm to carry out fruit recognition and picking tests; not far away, a robot dog moves through the greenhouse and fields, exploring inspection and data collection...
The "Xiejing'an · Transfar Agri-Innovation Village" is composed of three villages: Xiejia Village, Jingyou Village, and Anshan Village. The Transfar Group, together with the local government and village collectives, has explored the establishment of a "government-enterprise-village-farmer" multi-stakeholder collaborative development model, which is a vivid microcosm (生动缩影, sheng dong suo ying - "vivid, miniature") of private enterprises assisting the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas.
For enterprises to participate in the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, one-way investment alone is not enough; the key is to form industries and business models that can operate sustainably over the long term.
In the digital seedling factory, fully automatic seeding machines quickly complete seed sowing; the humidity in the germination room can reach 95 percent. Taking tomatoes as an example, indoor germination generally takes only 4 to 5 days, three times faster than natural germination; in the nursery workshop, fully automatic sprinklers provide precise irrigation, and vegetable seedlings and flower seedlings grow on schedule...
"What we want to do is to build a stronger foundation for agricultural technology and industry, so that farmland can 'grow' new quality productive forces," said Chen Ke, general manager of Zhejiang Transfar Rural Development Co., Ltd.
Empowered by technology, the high-quality seedlings produced by "Xiejing'an" can supply coverage for more than 10,000 mu of farmland locally and in surrounding areas. To address the challenge of transforming scientific and technological achievements, "Xiejing'an" has built an agricultural research and experimentation platform featuring pilot-scale testing and achievement transformation, and has opened up real agricultural scenarios such as laboratories, research greenhouses, seedling factories, and production bases, promoting the training, testing, and validation of technologies such as AI (artificial intelligence) breeding and agricultural robots, and exploring a new path for transforming scientific and technological achievements characterized by "enter the door to do experiments, go out the door to conduct trials, and transform in the fields."
"To date, we have cumulatively hosted and served more than 30 research institutes and enterprises, and jointly carried out more than 30 projects such as the rapid breeding of high-yield and stable-yield corn," Chen Ke said.
For industries to take root in rural areas over the long term, young talent is indispensable. "Xiejing'an" launched the Rural Dream Maker Plan, established a 10 million yuan entrepreneurship fund, and has cumulatively attracted more than 70 agricultural entrepreneurs to develop here.
In 2024, Miao Xinhua, from Shangrao, Jiangxi Province, moved his founded Jingtian Agricultural Cooperative to "Xiejing'an," planting more than 50 mu of strawberries and tomatoes, and currently achieving an annual revenue of more than 3 million yuan. "Regular technical training is held here to help solve planting problems, and a market circulation platform has been built to broaden our sales channels," Miao Xinhua said.
According to statistics, "Xiejing'an · Transfar Agri-Innovation Village" has cultivated nearly 60 enterprises, with the platform cumulatively adding 440 million yuan in output value and driving an increase in villagers' income of more than 32.7 million yuan.
The steps toward exploring common prosperity have extended from the water towns of the Jiangnan region to the vast western regions. The Transfar Group combines industrial assistance with livelihood security, participates in east-west collaboration, and helps western counties shore up development shortcomings. The Transfar "Highway Port" model has been implemented in Mianyang, Sichuan Province in recent years, carrying out intelligent upgrades to logistics hubs, opening up regional urban-rural commercial circulation channels, and promoting the deep integration of manufacturing, commerce and trade, and the logistics industry.
Having donated and built medical and health rooms for 1,037 villages in 6 provinces, covering and benefiting more than 1.8 million people; promoting the "government-enterprise-village-farmer" collaborative model and agricultural entrepreneurship incubation mechanisms in places such as Songyang, Zhejiang Province, and providing diversified solutions... Xu Guanjü, chairman of the Transfar Group, stated that the enterprise will take responsibility and act in fulfilling its social responsibilities, and make greater contributions to advancing the construction of the demonstration zone for common prosperity.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Chengdu, November 11) (Reporter Wang Mingfeng) The Sichuan Provincial Plateau Disease Prevention and Treatment Base was recently completed and put into operation in Mao County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. This is China's first plateau disease prevention and treatment base at mid-altitude. Under the guidance of West China Hospital of Sichuan University, the base will carry out mid-altitude rehabilitation and related medical research, forming with the hospital's plateau disease prevention and treatment research platforms in Chengdu and Lhasa a complete scientific research system spanning "low altitude—mid-altitude—high altitude."
As a key project of Sichuan Province's 2026 provincial-level livelihood initiatives for the people, the Sichuan Provincial Plateau Disease Prevention and Treatment Base moves the threshold of plateau disease prevention and treatment forward, will provide medical services to nearly 900,000 people in Aba Prefecture, and will radiate outward to the western Sichuan Plateau and even the people of all ethnic groups across the entire western region, systematically enhancing plateau disease prevention and treatment capacity and helping to resolve the pressing problems and needs of the people (急难愁盼, ji nan chou pan - "urgent, difficult, anxious, longing") of plateau residents.
Return to TopVocational education is an important component of the national education system and the development of human resources, and it bears the important responsibility of cultivating diversified talent, passing on technical skills, and promoting employment and entrepreneurship. As a key cultivation unit of the national "Double High Plan" under the second phase of Henan Province's "Higher Vocational Double High Project," Henan Vocational College of Water Conservancy and Environment takes root in its founding character of water conservancy and environment, adheres to the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, builds a "grand ideological and political education" pattern led by Party building, integrates ideological and political soul-forging, ecological education, and the cultivation of the craftsman spirit into the entire process of talent cultivation, guides young students to integrate their youthful ideals into the overall situation of ensuring the safety of rivers and seas, green development, and jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative, and has blazed a distinctive path of education.
The college adheres to the leadership of Party building, solidly advances the comprehensive reform of "education by all staff, throughout the entire process, and in all aspects," and promotes the coordinated development of ideological and political courses and curriculum-based ideological and political education. College leaders take the lead in teaching ideological and political courses, bringing major engineering cases such as the ecological protection and high-quality development strategy of the Yellow River basin and the South-to-North Water Diversion Project into the classroom, and integrating family-country responsibility and ecological concepts into professional courses such as water conservancy engineering and environmental monitoring. The college has established a provincial demonstration center for teaching research on ideological and political education in vocational education and continuing education courses, has built a number of provincial demonstration projects for curriculum-based ideological and political education, and has incorporated the education of the "Four Histories," labor education, and ecological civilization education into the talent cultivation plan. At the same time, it makes good use of the broader society as a classroom, has built a number of ideological and political practice, ecological civilization, and labor education bases, organizes students to go to the front lines of engineering projects, villages, and communities, carries out immersive practical teaching, and enables ideological and political education to take firm root and flourish.
Fostering virtue through education, protecting greenery for the people. The college takes ecological civilization education as a distinctive hallmark of fostering virtue through education, enriches the distinctive campus culture, and vigorously promotes the water conservancy spirit of the new era of "loyalty, integrity, responsibility, science, pragmatism, and innovation." Relying on carriers such as campus cultural activities and model figure presentations, it explores typical examples among teachers and students. Graduates take the initiative to take root at the front lines of grassroots water conservancy work and have won the "Henan Province Outstanding Award for Grassroots Employment of College Graduates"; current students bravely compete in national-level skills competitions and have won gold medals in the World Vocational College Skills Competition, interpreting with practical actions the youthful responsibility of serving the country with skills.
Based on the overall situation of the country's opening up to the outside world, the college actively promotes vocational education going global and international exchange and cooperation, builds a new education model of localized cultivation and internationalized empowerment, and actively showcases vocational education achievements. The college actively exports vocational education standards, deeply participates in the research and development of Pakistan's cross-border e-commerce professional curriculum standards, and realizes the overseas implementation of Henan's vocational education standards. It continuously deepens cross-border school-running cooperation, jointly builds the "Jialu College" with Kazakhstan, and implements in-depth China-Kazakhstan vocational education cooperation projects; it has created the "Dahe Workshop" skills training project in Vietnam to assist cooperation in international production capacity and the fields of water conservancy and environmental protection. At the same time, it actively carries out Sino-foreign cooperative education, links with universities in the United Kingdom, Germany, Malaysia, and other countries, opens internationalized majors such as water conservancy engineering, ecological environment, and intelligent construction, builds platforms for teacher-student exchanges, joint cultivation, and overseas employment, and strives to cultivate composite technical and skilled talents who possess both family-country sentiment, international vision, and professional competence.
Sharpening skills and educating people through the integration of industry and education, and promoting the implementation and effectiveness of education in all five aspects of moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and labor education. Relying on the construction of the "Double High Project," the college deepens school-enterprise collaborative education, builds industrial colleges, implements the modern apprenticeship system and order-based cultivation models, introduces real engineering projects into practical training classrooms, and hones students' quality awareness and professional ethics in hands-on training. The college has formed multiple social practice volunteer service teams that go deep into villages and communities year-round to carry out water conservancy science popularization and ecological protection volunteer services, and has been rated as a provincial-level key team for summer "Three Trips to the Countryside" social practice on multiple occasions, and was rated as a national-level key team in 2024. Over the years, college graduates have gone to the front lines of industries such as water conservancy and ecological environment, and have performed their duties conscientiously in river and lake management and protection and engineering construction positions.
Rivers surge onward, education never ceases. Facing the new journey of high-quality development of vocational education, Henan Vocational College of Water Conservancy and Environment will continue to strengthen the distinctive education brand of "ideological and political education + water conservancy + ecology," improve the education mechanism of simultaneously cultivating virtue and skills, cultivate more technical and skilled talents who are concerned about the country and the people and possess superb skills, and continuously contribute youthful strength to the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River basin and the modernization of Henan.
Data source: Henan Vocational College of Water Conservancy and Environment
Return to TopOn November 9, the "Emergency Mission · 2026" — Chongqing major forest fire extinguishing exercise was held in Fengjie County, Chongqing. At the exercise site, the C909 firefighting aircraft roared overhead, and 30,000 self-priming water bags were all dropped within 6 seconds and landed within 15 seconds, forming a continuous, uniform, and effective fire-retardant belt approximately 400 meters long, building a fire-control isolation barrier.
This exercise, which took as its entry point the difficulty of cracking the problems of "difficulty in full-domain perception, difficulty in force projection, and difficulty in water supply support" in firefighting in the high-mountain forest areas of the southwest, vividly demonstrated the practical effectiveness of Chongqing's digital emergency response construction. In recent years, relying on the construction of Digital Chongqing, the Chongqing Municipal Emergency Management Bureau has built a digital emergency response "1356N" framework, horizontally opening up data circulation channels among departments, and vertically connecting the three-level governance centers of the municipality, districts and counties, and towns and streets, promoting the transformation of emergency response from experience-based judgment to digital-intelligent governance.
Prioritizing prevention (以“防”为先, yi fang wei xian - "take prevention as first"), weaving a dense full-domain perception network. Chongqing has deployed more than 24,000 sensing devices, aggregated more than 130 categories of risk-monitoring perception data, achieved full coverage of key forest areas and high-risk zones, and realized uninterrupted 24-hour monitoring. At the exercise site, with the assistance of the intelligent system, Fengjie quickly activated the "135" early-stage fire handling mechanism, namely 1 minute for on-site inspection, 3 minutes for cross-verification, and 5 minutes for dispatching township rescue teams, while simultaneously calling upon the Emergency Eagle Eye and forest fire factor monitoring systems for online re-verification, comparing and cross-checking multi-source data, rapidly confirming the fire situation, and dispatching rescue teams with one click. In addition, through measures such as launching reconnaissance drones, setting up surveillance ball cameras at high points, and having rescue personnel wear digital individual soldier equipment, a "heaven-earth-human" three-dimensional surveillance matrix was established within ten minutes, allowing the full picture of the fire scene to be clearly presented.
Taking "connectivity" as the foundation, building a solid resilient communications foundation. One of the biggest pain points in high-mountain fire scenes is the attenuation of public network signals and poor command communications. To restore the command communications link, the on-site command post at the exercise dispatched the airborne communications detachment of the Chongqing Aviation Emergency Rescue Corps to rappel from helicopters to the high ground of the fire scene, relying on equipment such as 370MHz base stations, portable satellite stations, and wide-narrowband self-organizing networks to form a three-dimensional network and quickly open up the command communications link.
Taking "data" as the chain, opening up the force projection channel. Chongqing has built a "specialized-regular-mass" emergency rescue force covering the three levels of municipality, districts and counties, and towns and streets, totaling 38,000 people, forming a tiered combat system. At the exercise site, after the digital sand table precisely calibrated the fire line coordinates and terrain elevation differences, the command post, in accordance with the planned projection routes, used new-quality rescue equipment to break through terrain limitations and precisely project materials such as water pumps and water hoses to the fire scene points. At the same time, command instructions reached the frontline individual soldier terminals directly through the digital emergency response system, using data to precisely empower force projection.
Data source: Chongqing Municipal Emergency Management Bureau
Return to TopOrder of the President of the People's Republic of China
No. 88
The Water Law of the People's Republic of China was revised and adopted at the 25th meeting 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, to come into force on March 22, 2027.
Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China
November 6, 2026
Table of Contents
Chapter I General Provisions
Chapter II Water Resources Planning
Chapter III Water Resources Protection and Development and Utilization
Chapter IV Water Resources Allocation and Economical Use
Chapter V Management and Protection of Rivers and Lakes
Chapter VI Construction and Operation of Water Projects
Chapter VII Handling of Water Disputes and Supervision and Inspection
Chapter VIII Legal Liability
Chapter IX Supplementary Provisions
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 This Law is enacted in accordance with the Constitution for the purposes of protecting, rationally developing, utilizing and economizing on water resources, preventing and controlling water disasters, achieving the sustainable utilization of water resources, safeguarding national water security, promoting high-quality development of the economy and society, and realizing living in harmony with nature (和谐共生, he xie gong sheng - "harmony, together, live, grow") and the sustainable development of the Chinese nation.
Article 2 This Law applies to the protection, development, utilization and economization of water resources and the prevention and control of water disasters within the territory of the People's Republic of China.
Water resources as mentioned in this Law include surface water and groundwater.
The development, utilization, protection and management of seawater shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions of relevant laws and administrative regulations.
Article 3 Water resources are owned by the state. The ownership of water resources is exercised by the State Council on behalf of the state. The water in ponds of rural collective economic organizations and in reservoirs constructed and managed by rural collective economic organizations shall be used by the respective rural collective economic organizations.
Article 4 In protecting, developing, utilizing and economizing on water resources and preventing and controlling water disasters, the line, principles, policies, decisions and arrangements of the Party and the state and the thinking on water governance shall be implemented and carried out; the principles of giving priority to water conservation, achieving spatial balance, and pursuing systematic governance shall be upheld; the coordinated exertion of the role of the government and the market mechanism shall be upheld; the principles of comprehensive planning, taking all factors into account (统筹兼顾, tong chou jian gu - "overall, plan, take into account, consider"), treating both the symptoms and the root causes (标本兼治, biao ben jian zhi - "symptom, root, treat, cure"), comprehensive utilization, and stressing results shall be followed; the multiple functions of water resources shall be brought into play; and the governance of water resources, water ecology, water environment and water disasters shall be coordinated as a whole.
Article 5 The state, with the goal of comprehensively enhancing the capacity to safeguard water security and with the focus on improving the system for the optimal allocation of water resources, the system for flood prevention and disaster reduction in river basins, and the system for water ecology protection and governance, coordinates the existing stock and incremental additions, strengthens interconnection and intercommunication, and accelerates the construction of a national water network that is complete and reliable in system, intensive, efficient, green and intelligent, and smooth in circulation and orderly in regulation and control.
Article 6 The state takes measures to strengthen the protection of water resources.
The state implements a system of rigid constraints on water resources, upholds the principles of determining the scale of cities, the layout of land, the size of population and the pattern of industry by water availability, optimizes the pattern of territorial space development and protection, promotes the scientific and rational layout of population and cities, builds a modern industrial system compatible with the carrying capacity of water resources, and promotes the intensive and economical utilization of water resources.
Article 7 The state protects the lawful rights and interests of units and individuals that rationally develop and utilize water resources in accordance with the law.
Units and individuals that develop and utilize water resources have the obligation to protect water resources in accordance with the law.
Article 8 The state implements, in accordance with the law, a licensing system for water withdrawal and a system of paid use of water resources. However, the use by rural collective economic organizations and their members of water in ponds and reservoirs of their own collective economic organizations is excepted.
Article 9 The state strictly practices water conservation, upholds and implements the policy of giving priority to water conservation, implements the national water conservation action, strengthens water conservation in agriculture, industry and urban areas, establishes incentive and constraint mechanisms, and comprehensively builds a water-conserving society.
All units and individuals have the obligation to conserve water.
Article 10 The state establishes and improves a system for the prevention and control of water disasters compatible with economic and social development, strengthens risk assessment of water disasters, monitoring, forecasting, early warning, defense and emergency response, and improves the capacity for disaster prevention, mitigation and relief.
The state establishes and improves a system for strategic reserves of water resources security.
Article 11 People's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen the construction of water conservancy infrastructure and incorporate it into the national economic and social development plans and territorial space plans at the corresponding level.
Article 12 People's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with the principle of division of financial powers and expenditure responsibilities, provide support for work such as the protection and economization of water resources and the prevention and control of water disasters.
The state establishes, as needed, a fund for major water conservancy project construction, and the specific measures shall be formulated by the State Council.
The state guides social capital to participate, in accordance with the law, in activities such as the protection, rational development, utilization and economization of water resources and the prevention and control of water disasters, and protects its lawful rights and interests, and encourages financial institutions to provide diversified financial services in accordance with the principles of marketization and rule of law.
Article 13 The state implements a management system for water resources that combines river basin management with administrative region management.
The water administrative department of the State Council is responsible for the unified management and supervision of water resources nationwide. Other relevant departments of the State Council are responsible, in accordance with their respective functions and division of duties, for the relevant work of water resources protection, development, utilization, economization and the prevention and control of water disasters.
The river basin management organs (hereinafter referred to as river basin management organs) established by the water administrative department of the State Council for the important rivers and lakes designated by the state, and their subordinate management organs, exercise, within the scope under their jurisdiction, the water resources management and supervision duties prescribed by laws and administrative regulations and granted by the water administrative department of the State Council.
The water administrative departments of local people's governments at or above the county level are responsible, within the limits of authority prescribed, for the unified management and supervision of water resources within their respective administrative regions. Other relevant departments of local people's governments at or above the county level are responsible, in accordance with their respective functions and division of duties, for the relevant work of water resources protection, development, utilization, economization and the prevention and control of water disasters within their respective administrative regions.
Article 14 The state implements the river and lake chief system and establishes a four-level system of river and lake chiefs at the provincial, municipal, county and township levels. River and lake chiefs at all levels are responsible for the relevant work of management and protection of rivers and lakes (including reservoirs) within their respective administrative regions and for coordinating and resolving major problems. The water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level are responsible for the specific organizational implementation work of the river and lake chief system.
Article 15 The state encourages and supports the research, promotion and application of water conservancy science and technology, strengthens the construction of water conservancy informatization, and enhances the level of automation, digitalization and intelligence of water conservancy work.
The water administrative department of the State Council shall organize the establishment and improvement of a system of water conservancy technical standards.
Article 16 The state strengthens the protection of water cultural heritage, inherits and promotes water culture, and promotes the flourishing and development of water culture.
People's governments at all levels and their relevant departments shall, in various forms, strengthen publicity and education on laws, regulations and relevant knowledge concerning the protection and economization of water resources and the prevention and control of water disasters, raise the awareness of the whole society regarding the protection and economization of water resources and the prevention and control of water disasters, and encourage units and individuals to participate in activities such as the protection and economization of water resources and the prevention and control of water disasters.
Article 17 With respect to important water-related ecological environment problems and the circumstances of dereliction of duty and failure to fulfill responsibilities discovered in ecological environment protection inspections and in the rectification thereof, accountability and responsibility investigation shall be pursued in accordance with state regulations.
Article 18 Units and individuals that have made outstanding achievements in the protection, rational development, utilization and economization of water resources and the prevention and control of water disasters shall be commended and rewarded in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state.
Chapter II Water Resources Planning
Article 19 The state strengthens the overall planning of the protection, development, utilization and economization of water resources and the prevention and control of water disasters, and coordinates water use for domestic, production and ecological purposes.
Article 20 The state formulates a national comprehensive plan for water resources, making overall arrangements for the rational allocation, effective protection, intensive and economical utilization of water resources and the prevention and control of water disasters, and implements it after approval in accordance with the prescribed limits of authority and procedures.
Article 21 The comprehensive river basin plans for the important rivers and lakes designated by the state shall be formulated by the water administrative department of the State Council jointly with the relevant departments of the State Council and the people's governments of the relevant provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and implemented after approval in accordance with the prescribed limits of authority and procedures. The comprehensive river basin plans for other rivers and lakes crossing provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall be formulated by the relevant river basin management organs jointly with the water administrative departments and relevant departments of the people's governments of the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government where the rivers and lakes are located, and submitted to the water administrative department of the State Council for review; after the water administrative department of the State Council solicits the opinions of the relevant departments of the State Council and the people's governments of the relevant provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, the plans shall be implemented after approval in accordance with the prescribed limits of authority and procedures.
The comprehensive river basin plans for other rivers and lakes other than those prescribed in the preceding paragraph shall be formulated by the water administrative departments of local people's governments at or above the county level jointly with the relevant departments and the relevant local people's governments in light of actual needs, submitted to the people's government at the corresponding level or the department authorized by it for approval, and filed with the water administrative department at the next higher level.
The comprehensive river basin plan is an important basis for the protection, development, utilization and economization of water resources and the prevention and control of water disasters in the river basin. Water-related plans within the river basin and within administrative regions shall be subordinate to the comprehensive river basin plan.
Article 22 In formulating plans, comprehensive scientific surveys and investigation and evaluation of water resources shall be taken as the basis, and the plans shall be coordinated with national economic and social development plans and territorial space plans. The comprehensive scientific surveys and investigation and evaluation of water resources shall be organized and conducted by the water administrative departments and natural resources departments of people's governments at or above the county level jointly with relevant departments, and the relevant results shall be published in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state.
In formulating plans, the mechanism for public participation and the system of expert consultation and demonstration shall be improved, and means such as modern information technology shall be comprehensively applied to improve the quality of plan formulation.
Article 23 The state strengthens the construction, management and protection of hydrological station networks. The water administrative department of the State Council, jointly with the relevant departments of the State Council, makes unified plans for the national hydrological monitoring network system, optimizes and improves the layout of hydrological station networks, and enhances the capacity for hydrological monitoring, forecasting, early warning and supervision.
The water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level and the river basin management organs shall, in accordance with the limits of management authority, uniformly publish to the public hydrological and water resources information, hydrological information, forecasts, early warnings, and water resources bulletins. Basic hydrological data shall be made public in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state.
Article 24 Once approved, plans shall be strictly implemented. The relevant departments of people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of plans.
Where an approved plan needs to be revised, it shall be submitted for approval in accordance with the original approval procedures.
The reasonable needs of plans involving land and space use shall be incorporated into the implementation supervision system of territorial space plans for coordinated guarantee.
Chapter III Water Resources Protection and Development and Utilization
Article 25 The state protects water resources, takes effective measures to protect vegetation, plants trees and grasses in light of local conditions, conserves water sources, prevents and controls soil erosion and water body pollution, and improves the ecological environment.
Article 26 The formulation of national economic and social development plans, overall territorial space plans and the layout of major construction projects shall be compatible with local water resources conditions and flood control requirements. In water-scarce areas, restrictions shall be imposed on the scale of cities and on industrial, agricultural and service industry projects with high water consumption in construction.
The state establishes and improves a system for demonstrating the water resources of construction projects and relevant plans involving the development and utilization of water resources.
Article 27 Where, as a result of the development and utilization of water resources, consequences such as the degradation of the use functions of river and lake waters, over-extraction of groundwater, depletion of water sources, land subsidence, seawater intrusion, and water environment pollution are caused, remedial measures shall be taken and the responsibility for treatment shall be borne.
Where, in mining mineral deposits or constructing underground projects, the dewatering and drainage and other activities cause the decline of the groundwater level, depletion of water sources or ground collapse, the mining unit or the construction unit shall take remedial measures and bear the responsibility for treatment.
Article 28 The state establishes and improves a system for the zoning of water function areas.
The competent department of ecological environment of the State Council, jointly with the relevant departments of the State Council such as those for development and reform and water administration, in light of the level of economic and social development and in accordance with the requirements of water ecological environment protection plans and comprehensive river basin plans, formulates the water function zoning for the important rivers and lakes designated by the state, and submits it to the State Council for approval. The water function zoning for other rivers and lakes shall be formulated by the competent departments of ecological environment of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government jointly with the relevant departments such as those for development and reform and water administration, submitted to the people's government at the corresponding level or the department authorized by it for approval, and filed with the competent department of ecological environment of the State Council. Where an approved water function zoning needs to be revised, it shall be submitted for approval in accordance with the original approval procedures.
The competent departments of ecological environment of local people's governments at or above the level of cities divided into districts and the river basin ecological environment supervision and management organs shall monitor the water ecological environment quality of water function areas, and where the water ecological environment quality is found not to meet the requirements, they shall promptly report to the relevant people's government to take treatment measures.
Article 29 The state strengthens the protection of drinking water source areas and implements directory management of drinking water source areas.
The water administrative department of the State Council, jointly with the relevant departments of the State Council, formulates the national directory of important drinking water source areas. The water administrative departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, jointly with the relevant departments, formulate the directories of other drinking water source areas within their respective administrative regions.
The water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen the management of drinking water source areas and regularly organize safety assessments of drinking water source areas.
Article 30 The state strengthens the management and protection of groundwater and prevents and controls over-extraction of groundwater.
The water administrative department of the State Council, jointly with the competent department of natural resources of the State Council, organizes the delimitation of national groundwater over-extraction areas and publishes them to the public in accordance with the law. In groundwater over-extraction areas, local people's governments at or above the county level shall take measures to strictly control the extraction of groundwater and gradually achieve a balance between groundwater extraction and recharge.
The water administrative departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, jointly with the relevant departments such as those for natural resources, in light of actual needs and with overall consideration of factors such as the delimitation of groundwater over-extraction areas, the utilization of groundwater and geological environment conditions, organize the delimitation of groundwater prohibited extraction zones and restricted extraction zones within their respective administrative regions, publish them after approval by the people's governments of the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and file them with the water administrative department of the State Council. Where, after the delimitation of groundwater prohibited extraction zones and restricted extraction zones, adjustment is truly necessary, the adjustment shall be carried out in accordance with the original delimitation procedures.
In coastal areas, the extraction of groundwater shall be subject to scientific demonstration, and measures shall be taken to prevent land subsidence and seawater intrusion.
Article 31 The state establishes a groundwater reserve system. Except in special drought years and in the event of major emergencies, groundwater reserves shall not be used.
Article 32 In developing and utilizing water resources, the principles of giving priority to conservation and protection and combining the promotion of benefits with the elimination of harms shall be upheld, the interests of upstream and downstream, left and right banks, main streams and tributaries, and the relevant regions shall be taken into account, the comprehensive benefits of water resources shall be brought into full play, and the overall arrangements for flood control shall be complied with.
Article 33 In developing and utilizing water resources, priority shall be given to meeting the domestic water needs of urban and rural residents, ensuring basic ecological water use and water for food security, and coordinating the needs of agriculture, industry, ecological restoration and navigation.
In developing and utilizing water resources in arid and semi-arid areas, full consideration shall be given to the needs of ecological water use.
Article 34 No unit or individual may, in diverting water, intercepting (storing) water, or draining water, harm the public interest or the lawful rights and interests of others.
Article 35 Where people's governments at or above the county level organize the implementation of water diversion projects, comprehensive planning and scientific demonstration shall be carried out, the water use security and ecological security of both the water-exporting area and the water-receiving area shall be taken into account, the management of water conservation in the water-receiving area shall be strengthened, unconventional water such as local reclaimed water shall be rationally utilized, the allocation of water resources shall be optimized, the carrying capacity of water resources shall be enhanced, and damage to the ecological environment shall be prevented.
Article 36 Local people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen the work of farmland water conservancy and soil and water conservation, organize the water administrative departments and the competent departments of agriculture and rural affairs to make overall arrangements for the construction and operation and maintenance of water sources, backbone irrigation district projects, field canal systems, etc., and establish and improve the farmland irrigation and drainage system; in areas prone to salinization and waterlogging damage and in areas with concentrated saline-alkali farmland, measures shall be taken to control and lower the groundwater level.
Article 37 The state supports the rational development and utilization of hydropower resources, carries out multi-objective comprehensive development in light of local conditions on rivers rich in hydropower, and strictly controls the development and construction of small hydropower stations.
In constructing and renovating hydropower stations, the ecological environment shall be protected, and the needs of flood control, water supply, irrigation, navigation, fishery and other aspects shall be taken into account.
Article 38 The state encourages the development and utilization of water transport resources. Where permanent river-crossing sluice dams are newly built, rebuilt or expanded on rivers that are migration channels for aquatic organisms or are navigable, the construction unit shall simultaneously construct fish passage and ship passage facilities, or take other remedial measures approved by the department authorized by the State Council, and properly arrange for the protection of aquatic organisms and navigation during the construction and water storage periods, with the necessary expenses borne by the construction unit.
Where, after the construction of sluice dams on non-navigable rivers or artificial waterways, navigation becomes possible, the unit constructing the sluice dams shall simultaneously construct ship passage facilities or reserve space for ship passage facilities.
Where navigation structures such as ship locks are constructed on rivers or artificial waterways, the state may, as circumstances warrant, permit the implementation of a toll system for passing vessels.
Chapter IV Water Resources Allocation and Economical Use
Article 39 In regulating and storing runoff and allocating water volumes, water volume allocation plans shall be formulated on the basis of comprehensive river basin plans and with the river basin as the unit.
Water volume allocation plans crossing provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government and water volume dispatch plans for emergency situations such as drought conditions shall be formulated by the river basin management organs in consultation with the people's governments of the relevant provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and implemented after approval by the State Council or the department authorized by the State Council. Other water volume allocation plans crossing administrative regions and water volume dispatch plans for emergency situations such as drought conditions shall be formulated by the water administrative departments of the common next higher level people's governments in consultation with the relevant local people's governments, and implemented after approval by the people's government at the corresponding level.
After the water volume allocation plans and the water volume dispatch plans for emergency situations such as drought conditions are approved, the relevant local people's governments shall strictly implement them.
In constructing water resources development and utilization projects on rivers between different administrative regions, the approved water volume allocation plans for the river basin shall be complied with, and the projects shall be submitted by the relevant local people's governments at or above the county level to the water administrative departments of the common next higher level people's governments or the relevant river basin management organs for approval.
Article 40 The water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level and the river basin management organs shall, in accordance with the limits of management authority and on the basis of the approved water volume allocation plans, ecological flow control indicators and the annual forecast of incoming water, formulate annual water volume allocation plans and water resources dispatch plans and implement unified dispatch of water resources. The relevant local people's governments and their relevant departments and the management units of water projects shall comply with the unified dispatch of water resources.
The unified dispatch of water resources implements total volume control, cross-section flow (water volume, water level) control, graded management and graded responsibility, and is dynamically adjusted in light of changes in water conditions.
Water resources dispatch shall be properly coordinated with flood dispatch, and, on the premise of ensuring safety, the effective supply of water resources shall be increased through measures such as the utilization of flood resources and storing water in wet years for use in dry years.
Article 41 The state implements a system of total groundwater extraction control and water level control to ensure the sustainable utilization of groundwater. The formulation and issuance of the indicators for total groundwater extraction control and water level control shall be carried out in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state.
Article 42 The state implements a system for water use that combines total volume control with quota management.
The water administrative department of the State Council and the standardization administrative department organize the formulation of national water use quotas for major crops, key industrial products and the service industry, etc. The people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government may, in light of actual needs, formulate local water use quotas that are stricter than the national water use quotas; where no national water use quota has been formulated, local water use quotas may be formulated as supplements.
The water administrative departments of local people's governments at or above the county level, jointly with the relevant departments, formulate annual water use plans for their respective administrative regions on the basis of water use quotas, economic and technical conditions, and the water volumes available for use in their respective administrative regions as determined by water volume allocation plans and groundwater control indicators, and implement total volume control over annual water use.
Article 43 Units and individuals that withdraw and use water resources from rivers, lakes or underground shall, in accordance with the law, apply to the water administrative departments or the river basin management organs for water withdrawal permits, obtain water withdrawal rights, and pay water resources taxes in accordance with the law. However, small quantities of water withdrawal for household use and for drinking by scattered and pen-raised livestock and poultry, as well as cases where laws and administrative regulations provide that no water withdrawal permit is required, are excepted.
The specific measures for implementing the water withdrawal licensing system shall be formulated by the State Council.
Article 44 The state implements differentiated control over water resources in light of the carrying capacity of water resources. The water administrative department of the State Council, jointly with the competent department of natural resources of the State Council, organizes the evaluation of the carrying capacity of water resources, keeps timely track of the carrying capacity of water resources and its changes, and establishes and dynamically updates a directory of water resources overloaded areas. In water resources overloaded areas, new water withdrawal permits shall be suspended in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state.
The people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government in water resources overloaded areas shall organize the formulation of treatment plans for water resources overload and implement comprehensive treatment by taking measures such as water conservation, industrial structure adjustment, scientific water diversion, and water source replacement.
Article 45 Water withdrawal and use shall be metered, and water shall be withdrawn and used in accordance with the approved water withdrawal and use plans. Where the water withdrawal volume reaches or exceeds the water withdrawal scale, online metering facilities shall be installed, the normal operation of the facilities shall be ensured, and the metering data shall be transmitted to the water administrative departments or river basin management organs with management authority. The water withdrawal scale shall be prescribed and published by the water administrative departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and filed with the water administrative department of the State Council.
Article 46 Water use is subject to metered charging. The state establishes and improves a water pricing formation mechanism compatible with the level of economic and social development, the state of water resources, the cost of water supply, the affordability of water users and water conservation requirements, so as to promote the intensive and economical utilization of water resources.
Where water supplied by water projects is used, water charges shall be paid to the water supply units in accordance with the provisions. The specific measures shall be formulated by the people's governments at or above the provincial level or their price authorities.
Article 47 People's governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments shall strengthen the management of water conservation and promote water conservation measures; establish a system for the development and promotion of water conservation technologies, promote new water conservation technologies and processes, and cultivate and develop the water conservation industry.
Article 48 Newly built, rebuilt and expanded construction projects shall formulate plans for water conservation measures and construct supporting water conservation facilities. The water conservation facilities shall be designed, constructed and put into use simultaneously with the main project, and their normal operation shall be ensured. The investment in the construction of water conservation facilities shall be included in the total investment of the construction project.
Article 49 Local people's governments at or above the county level shall, in light of local water resources conditions, strengthen the treatment and reuse of sewage, incorporate unconventional water such as reclaimed water, collected rainwater, seawater and desalinated seawater, mine (pit) water, and brackish water into the unified allocation of water resources, and make overall plans for and construct facilities for the development and utilization of unconventional water.
Article 50 The state gradually eliminates backward technologies, processes, equipment and products with high water consumption, and the specific directory shall be formulated and published by the development and reform department of the State Council jointly with the relevant departments of the State Council such as those for industry and information technology, water administration, and housing and urban-rural development. The production, import and sale of the equipment and products listed in the above directory are prohibited. Users in production and operation shall stop using the technologies, processes, equipment and products listed in the above directory within a prescribed time limit.
Article 51 Local people's governments at or above the county level shall promote water-conserving irrigation methods and water conservation technologies, take necessary anti-seepage measures for agricultural water storage and conveyance projects, improve the efficiency of agricultural water use, strengthen the construction and renovation of irrigation districts, and develop water-conserving agriculture.
Industrial and service industry enterprises shall adopt advanced and applicable water conservation technologies, processes and equipment, increase the number of cycles of water use, and improve the rate of water reuse. Where the water use level of high water-consuming industrial enterprises exceeds the water use quota, water conservation renovation shall be carried out within a prescribed time limit.
Article 52 Local people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen the overall coordination of domestic, production and ecological water use within built-up urban areas, implement water conservation requirements in all aspects of urban planning, construction and governance, and comprehensively promote the construction of water-conserving cities.
Public institutions shall play an exemplary role in water conservation, establish and improve water conservation management systems, change water use methods, strictly implement water use quotas, take targeted water conservation renovation measures, and improve the efficiency of water resources utilization.
Local people's governments at or above the county level shall take measures to encourage the use of reclaimed water that meets standard requirements. Water use for urban greening, road cleaning, car washing and toilet flushing, construction, and ecological landscapes shall give priority to the use of reclaimed water that meets standard requirements.
Article 53 The state implements a system of ecological protection compensation, and provides compensation to regions, units and individuals that carry out water ecological environment protection in accordance with the provisions or agreements.
The state cultivates and regulates the water use rights trading market and supports the lawful conduct of water use rights trading.
Article 54 Local people's governments at or above the county level shall take measures to promote the coordinated development of urban and rural water supply and improve the level of urban and rural water supply security.
Chapter V Management and Protection of Rivers and Lakes
Article 55 The state coordinates the management and protection of rivers and lakes and establishes a system of regular surveys of rivers and lakes. The water administrative department of the State Council organizes surveys of rivers and lakes and implements directory management of rivers and lakes.
Article 56 The management of rivers and lakes implements the principle of combining unified management by river basin with graded management by region.
The important rivers and lakes designated by the state, the important rivers and lakes crossing provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, the rivers and lakes on provincial boundaries between provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and the rivers and lakes on national (border) boundaries shall be managed in accordance with the law by the river basin management organs and the water administrative departments of the people's governments of the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government where the rivers and lakes are located, in accordance with the delimitation of the water administrative department of the State Council. Other rivers and lakes shall be managed in accordance with the law by the water administrative departments of local people's governments at or above the county level, in accordance with the delimitation of the water administrative department of the State Council or the river basin management organs.
Article 57 Management scope shall be delimited for rivers and lakes. For rivers and lakes with dikes, the management scope is the waters, sandbars and floodplains between the dikes on both banks, and the dikes and the land for protecting the dikes; for rivers and lakes without dikes, the management scope is the waters, sandbars and floodplains between the historical highest flood level or the design flood level.
The management scope of rivers and lakes directly managed by river basin management organs shall be delimited by the river basin management organs jointly with the relevant local people's governments at or above the county level; the management scope of other rivers and lakes shall be delimited by the relevant local people's governments at or above the county level. The management scope of rivers and lakes shall be announced to the public, and markers shall be set up at the boundaries of the management scope.
Where dikes of rivers and lakes are newly built, rebuilt or expanded, the management scope of the rivers and lakes shall be promptly adjusted in accordance with the provisions of the first and second paragraphs of this Article.
Article 58 It is prohibited to illegally encroach upon and illegally utilize or occupy the waters and shorelines of rivers and lakes, to reclaim land from lakes, to reclaim river channels for cultivation, and to fill in rivers and lakes. Where encroachment or reclamation has already occurred, local people's governments at or above the county level shall organize, in a planned manner, the return of land to rivers and lakes.
Article 59 It is prohibited to construct buildings and structures that obstruct flood discharge within the management scope of rivers and lakes, and to engage in activities that affect the stability of river regimes, endanger the safety of river banks and dikes, or otherwise obstruct flood discharge. For rivers and lakes with severe siltation, dredging and ecological restoration shall be carried out promptly; the silt produced may, on the premise of ensuring flood control safety and ecological safety and not reducing the actual storage capacity of lakes, be comprehensively utilized and disposed of in light of local conditions.
River-related construction projects shall follow the principles of being truly necessary, unavoidable, and ensuring safety, comply with flood control standards and shoreline control requirements, and shall not endanger the safety of dikes, affect the stability of river regimes, arbitrarily change the use of waters and floodplains, reduce flood discharge and regulation and storage capacity, or reduce the area of waters; where it is truly impossible to avoid reducing flood discharge and regulation and storage capacity or reducing the area of waters, necessary equivalent replacement projects shall be constructed simultaneously or other necessary functional remedial measures shall be taken.
Before the commencement of construction of a river-related construction project, its engineering construction plan shall be submitted to the water administrative departments or the river basin management organs for examination and approval. Where, due to the construction of a river-related construction project, it is necessary to expand, rebuild, demolish or damage existing water projects, the construction unit shall bear the costs of expanding, rebuilding and repairing the water projects and the compensation for losses.
Article 60 The use of land within the management scope of rivers and lakes shall comply with the requirements of flood discharge, water conveyance and ecological environment protection.
No new forest land or cultivated land may be added within the management scope of rivers and lakes; where the already delimited forest land and cultivated land affect flood control safety, the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall organize their adjustment and withdrawal in accordance with the law in a steady and orderly manner.
Where the construction and management of nature reserves involve the management scope of rivers and lakes, the needs of river and lake protection shall be taken into overall consideration, flood control requirements shall be met, and the development of flood control project construction and management activities shall be ensured.
Article 61 The state implements a licensing system for the extraction of sand, gravel and earth within the management scope of rivers and lakes. The specific measures shall be formulated by the State Council.
The river basin management organs and local people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with the plans and the limits of management authority, delimit prohibited extraction areas and prescribe prohibited extraction periods, and announce them to the public.
It is prohibited to transport, purchase or sell sand, gravel and earth extracted by units or individuals that have not obtained licenses in accordance with the law.
Article 62 Local people's governments at or above the county level may, in light of actual circumstances, delimit shoreline protection scope in a certain area extending landward from the boundaries of the management scope of rivers and lakes, and activities affecting flood control safety and the ecological environment shall be strictly controlled within the shoreline protection scope. The measures for shoreline protection shall be formulated by the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government.
Article 63 The state strengthens the guarantee of ecological water use for rivers and lakes. The water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level and the river basin management organs shall, in accordance with the limits of management authority, determine the control indicators for ecological flow at control sections of rivers, the control indicators for ecological water levels of lakes, and the indicators for ecological flow discharge of water projects. In determining the control indicators for ecological flow and ecological water levels and the indicators for ecological flow discharge of water projects, comprehensive consideration shall be given to factors such as water resources conditions, climatic conditions, ecological environment protection requirements, and domestic and production water use conditions, and the opinions of the relevant departments shall be solicited and studied.
Newly built, rebuilt and expanded water projects shall meet the requirements for ecological flow discharge; where existing water projects cannot meet the requirements for ecological flow discharge, renovation measures shall be taken.
Water projects shall incorporate ecological water dispatch into their routine operation and dispatch procedures.
Article 64 For rivers and lakes with deteriorating ecology, people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen treatment and restoration, make overall use of measures such as ecological water replenishment, biological purification, ecological dredging, and connectivity of rivers and lakes, carry out comprehensive treatment of the ecosystems of rivers and lakes, and improve and restore the ecosystems of rivers and lakes.
Chapter VI Construction and Operation of Water Projects
Article 65 The construction of water projects shall comply with comprehensive river basin plans. Where water projects are constructed on the important rivers and lakes designated by the state and on rivers and lakes crossing provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, the construction unit shall not commence construction unless the relevant river basin management organs have examined and approved whether the projects comply with the requirements of the comprehensive river basin plans; where water projects are constructed on other rivers and lakes, the construction unit shall not commence construction unless the water administrative departments of local people's governments at or above the county level have examined and approved whether the projects comply with the requirements of the comprehensive river basin plans. Where the construction of water projects involves flood control, the relevant provisions of the Flood Control Law of the People's Republic of China shall apply. Where the construction of water projects involves other regions and industries, the construction unit shall solicit and study the opinions of the relevant regions and departments in advance.
Article 66 In engaging in the construction of water projects, the basic construction procedures shall be strictly followed to ensure project quality and safety. In engaging in the survey, design, construction, supervision and quality inspection of water projects, the corresponding qualifications shall be obtained in accordance with the law, and the relevant activities shall be carried out within the scope permitted by the qualifications.
In newly building, rebuilding, expanding and reinforcing water projects such as reservoir dams, dikes, channels and sluices, supporting facilities such as hydrological facilities shall be constructed in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state.
Water projects shall be accepted in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state; those that have not been accepted in accordance with the provisions or have failed acceptance shall not be put into use or proceed with subsequent project construction. The measures for the acceptance of water projects shall be formulated by the water administrative department of the State Council and other relevant departments in accordance with their respective functions.
Article 67 Where rural collective economic organizations or their members invest, in accordance with the law, in the construction of water projects on land collectively owned by the members of their own collective economic organizations and on state-owned land lawfully used collectively by peasant collectives, the water projects and the water stored therein shall be managed and rationally used in accordance with the principle that whoever invests in the construction manages and whoever benefits manages and uses.
The construction of reservoirs by rural collective economic organizations shall be approved by the water administrative departments of local people's governments at or above the county level.
Article 68 The state implements the policy of developmental resettlement for resettlers of large and medium-sized reservoirs, properly arranges the subsequent production and livelihood of resettlers, and protects the lawful rights and interests of resettlers.
Resettlement shall be carried out simultaneously with project construction. The construction unit shall, in light of the environmental capacity of the resettlement area and the principle of sustainable development, formulate resettlement plans in light of local conditions, and after approval in accordance with the law, the relevant local people's governments shall organize their implementation. The necessary resettlement funds shall be included in the project construction investment plan.
Article 69 People's governments at or above the county level shall take effective measures to ensure the safety of water projects, especially reservoir dams, dikes and sluices. The water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, jointly with the relevant departments, strengthen the supervision and management of the safety of water projects.
The water administrative departments and relevant departments of people's governments at or above the county level and the river basin management organs shall, in accordance with their respective functions, register the water projects under their management and establish archives for the water projects.
Article 70 The water administrative department of the State Council and the relevant departments of the State Council shall, in accordance with their respective functions, establish and improve the management system for the safe operation of water projects.
The owners or management units of water projects shall implement the funds for the operation, management and protection of water projects, strengthen the maintenance, conservation and safety monitoring of water projects, carry out safety appraisals of water projects in accordance with the relevant provisions, and ensure the safe operation of water projects.
The water administrative departments and relevant departments of people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen the guidance and supervision of the operation, management and protection of water projects, and for water projects with safety hazards, shall organize the owners or management units of the water projects to take measures such as reinforcement to eliminate dangers, demolition and reconstruction, or decommissioning in accordance with the relevant provisions, so as to promptly eliminate safety hazards.
Article 71 The state implements the protection of water projects. Water projects shall have their project management and protection scope delimited in accordance with the provisions.
For water projects managed by the water administrative department of the State Council or the river basin management organs, the project management and protection scope shall be delimited by the water administrative department of the State Council or the river basin management organs in consultation with the people's governments of the relevant provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government. For other water projects, the project management and protection scope shall be delimited in accordance with the provisions of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and the protection responsibilities shall be clarified.
Within the protection scope of water projects, activities such as blasting, well drilling, quarrying and earth extraction that affect the operation of water projects and endanger the safety of water projects are prohibited.
Article 72 The relevant departments of people's governments at or above the county level, such as those for water administration, natural resources and ecological environment, shall take effective measures to strengthen soil and water conservation and geological disaster prevention and control in reservoir areas, protect and restore the ecological environment of the water-level fluctuation zones, and ensure the safety of reservoirs.
It is prohibited to encroach upon the storage capacity of reservoirs. Where it is truly necessary to construct river-related construction projects in reservoir areas, the projects shall be submitted to the water administrative departments or the river basin management organs for examination and approval in accordance with the provisions of this Law, and necessary remedial measures shall be taken.
Article 73 No unit or individual may encroach upon or destroy project facilities such as reservoir dams, dikes, sluices, pumping stations, bank revetments, and facilities for flood control, drainage of waterlogging, water supply, irrigation, soil and water conservation, hydrological monitoring, and hydrogeological monitoring.
Article 74 Where, in engaging in project construction, agricultural irrigation water sources and irrigation and drainage project facilities are occupied, or there are adverse effects on the original irrigation water use and water supply sources, the construction unit shall take corresponding remedial measures; where losses are caused, compensation shall be given in accordance with the law.
Article 75 The water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level and the river basin management organs shall, on the basis of soliciting and studying the opinions of the relevant departments, coordinate the objectives of flood control, drainage of waterlogging, water supply, drought resistance, irrigation, ecology, navigation, power generation, etc., and establish a comprehensive dispatch system; and organize the implementation of unified dispatch of water projects in accordance with the limits of management authority.
Chapter VII Handling of Water Disputes and Supervision and Inspection
Article 76 Where water disputes occur between different administrative regions, they shall be handled through consultation; where consultation fails, the common next higher level people's government shall make a ruling, and the parties concerned shall comply with and implement it. Before the resolution of a water dispute, without an agreement reached by all parties or the approval of the common next higher level people's government, no party may construct drainage, water-blocking, water withdrawal or water interception (storage) projects within a certain range on both sides of the boundary line between the administrative regions, nor unilaterally change the status quo of the water.
Article 77 Water disputes between units, between individuals, or between units and individuals shall be resolved through consultation; where the parties are unwilling to consult or consultation fails, they may apply to the local people's governments at or above the county level or the departments authorized by them for mediation, or may directly initiate civil litigation with the people's courts. Where mediation by the local people's governments at or above the county level or the departments authorized by them fails, the parties may initiate civil litigation with the people's courts.
Before the resolution of a water dispute, the parties shall not unilaterally change the status quo.
Article 78 When handling water disputes, people's governments at or above the county level or the departments authorized by them have the right to take temporary disposal measures in accordance with the law, and the parties concerned shall comply.
Article 79 The water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall strengthen supervision and inspection, investigate and deal with illegal acts in accordance with the law, and carry out information sharing, joint monitoring and coordinated law enforcement in light of actual needs.
Article 80 When performing the supervision and inspection duties prescribed in this Law, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs have the right to take the following measures:
(1) to consult and copy relevant documents, certificates and materials, and to seal up documents and materials that may be transferred, destroyed, concealed or altered;
(2) to require the inspected units or individuals to make explanations on issues concerning the implementation of this Law;
(3) to enter the production premises of the inspected units or individuals for investigation;
(4) to order the inspected units or individuals to stop acts violating this Law and to perform statutory obligations;
(5) to seal up or seize premises, facilities or property involved in suspected illegal activities.
Where the water administrative departments, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs carry out supervision and inspection in accordance with the law, the inspected units or the relevant personnel shall cooperate and shall not refuse or obstruct.
Article 81 The personnel of the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs who perform the supervision and inspection duties prescribed in this Law (hereinafter referred to as water administration supervision and inspection personnel) shall be devoted to their duties and enforce the law impartially.
When performing supervision and inspection duties, the water administration supervision and inspection personnel shall show their law enforcement certificates to the inspected units or individuals.
Article 82 The water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen the training and supervision of water administration supervision and inspection personnel and improve the capacity and level of law enforcement.
Article 83 Where people's governments at or above the county level or water administrative departments at higher levels discover that the water administrative departments at the corresponding level or at lower levels have committed illegal acts or dereliction of duty in supervision and inspection work, they shall order them to make corrections within a prescribed time limit.
Chapter VIII Legal Liability
Article 84 Where staff members of the relevant departments of the State Council, local people's governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments, and the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs commit dereliction of duty (玩忽职守, wan hu zhi shou - "play, neglect, duty, guard"), abuse of power, or engage in malpractice for personal gain in the work of water resources protection, development, utilization, economization and the prevention and control of water disasters, they shall be given sanctions in accordance with the law.
Article 85 Where water disputes occur between different administrative regions and any of the following acts is committed, the leading personnel and directly responsible personnel bearing responsibility shall be given sanctions in accordance with the law:
(1) refusing to implement the water volume allocation plans and the water volume dispatch plans;
(2) refusing to comply with the unified dispatch of water resources;
(3) refusing to implement the ruling of the common next higher level people's government;
(4) before the resolution of the water dispute, without an agreement reached by all parties or the approval of the common next higher level people's government, unilaterally changing the status quo of the water in violation of the provisions of this Law. However, cases where temporary disposal measures are taken in accordance with the law under emergency circumstances are excepted.
Article 86 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, water is withdrawn without approval, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall, in accordance with their authority, order the cessation of the illegal act, order the retroactive application for a water withdrawal permit within a prescribed time limit, and impose a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan; where the permit is not applied for retroactively within the prescribed time limit or the application is not approved, the water withdrawal facilities shall be ordered to be demolished within a prescribed time limit; where they are not demolished within the prescribed time limit, they shall be forcibly demolished, with the necessary expenses borne by the illegal unit or individual.
Where groundwater is withdrawn without authorization within groundwater prohibited extraction zones or restricted extraction zones, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall, in accordance with their authority, order the cessation of the illegal act, order the demolition of the water withdrawal facilities within a prescribed time limit, and impose a fine of not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan; where they are not demolished within the prescribed time limit, they shall be forcibly demolished, with the necessary expenses borne by the illegal unit or individual.
Where water is withdrawn not in accordance with the conditions prescribed in the approved water withdrawal permit, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall, in accordance with their authority, order the cessation of the illegal act and impose a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan; where the circumstances are serious, the water withdrawal permit shall be revoked.
Article 87 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, the water withdrawal volume reaches or exceeds the water withdrawal scale and online metering facilities are not installed or the online metering facilities do not operate normally, the water administrative departments of local people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall, in accordance with their authority, order the installation, replacement or repair within a prescribed time limit and impose a fine of not more than 20,000 yuan; where the circumstances are serious, a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan shall be imposed. Where the facilities are not installed, replaced or repaired within the prescribed time limit, measures to restrict water withdrawal shall be taken or the water withdrawal permit shall be revoked.
Article 88 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, the water conservation facilities of a construction project are not designed, constructed and put into use simultaneously with the main project, or do not meet the requirements prescribed by the state, and the project is put into use without authorization, the relevant departments and organs of people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with their authority, order corrections within a prescribed time limit and impose a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan; where corrections are not made within the prescribed time limit, a fine of not less than 200,000 yuan but not more than 2,000,000 yuan shall be imposed, and measures to restrict water use shall be taken or the water withdrawal permit shall be revoked.
Where the water conservation facilities of a construction project do not operate normally, corrections shall be ordered within a prescribed time limit and a fine of not more than 20,000 yuan shall be imposed; where corrections are not made within the prescribed time limit, a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan shall be imposed, and measures to restrict water use shall be taken or the water withdrawal permit shall be revoked.
Article 89 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, technologies, processes, equipment and products listed in the directory that are backward and have high water consumption are produced, imported, sold or used in production and operation, punishment shall be imposed in accordance with the provisions of laws such as the Ecological Environment Code of the People's Republic of China.
Article 90 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, the water use level of high water-consuming industrial enterprises exceeds the water use quota and water conservation renovation is not carried out within the prescribed time limit, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall, in accordance with their authority, order corrections and may impose a fine of not more than 100,000 yuan; where corrections are refused, a fine of not less than 100,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan shall be imposed, and where the circumstances are serious, measures to restrict water use shall be taken or the water withdrawal permit shall be revoked.
Article 91 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, the waters and shorelines of rivers and lakes are illegally encroached upon or illegally utilized or occupied, land is reclaimed from lakes, river channels are reclaimed for cultivation, or rivers and lakes are filled in, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall, in accordance with their authority, order the cessation of the illegal act, order the demolition of the illegal buildings and structures within a prescribed time limit, the restoration of the original state, and impose a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan; where the buildings and structures are not demolished, the obstructions are not removed, or the original state is not restored within the prescribed time limit, they shall be forcibly demolished and removed, and the original state shall be restored on their behalf, with the necessary expenses borne by the illegal unit or individual.
Article 92 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, buildings and structures that obstruct flood discharge are constructed within the management scope of rivers and lakes, or activities that affect the stability of river regimes, endanger the safety of river banks and dikes, or otherwise obstruct flood discharge are engaged in, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall, in accordance with their authority, order the cessation of the illegal act, order the demolition of the illegal buildings and structures within a prescribed time limit, the restoration of the original state, and impose a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan; where the buildings and structures are not demolished or the original state is not restored within the prescribed time limit, they shall be forcibly demolished and the original state shall be restored on their behalf, with the necessary expenses borne by the illegal unit or individual.
Where water projects or river-related construction projects are constructed without the consent of the water administrative departments or the river basin management organs, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall, in accordance with their authority, order the cessation of the illegal act, order the retroactive completion of the relevant procedures within a prescribed time limit, and impose a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan; where the procedures are not completed retroactively within the prescribed time limit or the applications are not approved, the illegal water projects and river-related construction projects shall be ordered to be demolished within a prescribed time limit; where they are not demolished within the prescribed time limit, they shall be forcibly demolished, with the necessary expenses borne by the illegal unit or individual.
Where water projects or river-related construction projects are constructed with the consent of the water administrative departments or the river basin management organs but not in accordance with the requirements, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall, in accordance with their authority, order corrections within a prescribed time limit and impose a fine of not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan; where corrections are not made within the prescribed time limit, a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan shall be imposed. Where the construction of water projects or river-related construction projects seriously affects flood discharge, demolition within a prescribed time limit and restoration of the original state shall be ordered, and a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan shall be imposed; where they are not demolished within the prescribed time limit, they shall be forcibly demolished and the original state shall be restored on their behalf, with the necessary expenses borne by the illegal unit or individual.
Article 93 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, activities of extracting sand, gravel and earth are engaged in without obtaining a license, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall, in accordance with their authority, order the cessation of the illegal act, confiscate the illegally extracted sand, gravel and earth and the illegal gains as well as the vessels, equipment and tools used in the illegal activities, and concurrently impose a fine of not less than two times but not more than twenty times the value of the illegally extracted sand, gravel and earth.
Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, sand, gravel and earth are extracted not in accordance with the conditions prescribed in the approved license, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall, in accordance with their authority, order the cessation of the illegal act, confiscate the illegally extracted sand, gravel and earth and the illegal gains, and concurrently impose a fine of not less than one time but not more than two times the value of the illegally extracted sand, gravel and earth; where the circumstances are serious or the extraction is carried out in prohibited extraction areas or during prohibited extraction periods, the illegally extracted sand, gravel and earth and the illegal gains as well as the vessels, equipment and tools used in the illegal activities shall be confiscated, the sand extraction license shall be revoked, and a fine of not less than two times but not more than twenty times the value of the illegally extracted sand, gravel and earth shall be concurrently imposed.
Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, sand, gravel and earth extracted by units or individuals that have not obtained licenses in accordance with the law are transported, purchased or sold, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs, the relevant maritime administration organs and the other relevant departments of people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with their authority, order the cessation of the illegal act, confiscate the illegally transported, purchased or sold sand, gravel and earth and the illegal gains, and impose a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan; where the circumstances are serious, a fine of not less than 200,000 yuan but not more than 2,000,000 yuan shall be concurrently imposed.
Article 94 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, newly built, rebuilt and expanded water projects do not meet the requirements for ecological flow discharge, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall, in accordance with their authority, order corrections within a prescribed time limit, give a warning, and concurrently 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 concurrently imposed.
Article 95 Where any of the following acts is committed, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall, in accordance with their authority, order the cessation of the illegal act, order the restoration of the original state within a prescribed time limit, confiscate the illegal gains, and impose a fine of not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan:
(1) engaging in activities such as blasting, well drilling, quarrying and earth extraction within the protection scope of water projects that affect the operation of water projects and endanger the safety of water projects;
(2) encroaching upon or destroying project facilities such as reservoir dams, dikes, sluices, pumping stations, bank revetments, and facilities for flood control, drainage of waterlogging, water supply, irrigation, soil and water conservation, hydrological monitoring, and hydrogeological monitoring.
Article 96 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, the circumstances for lighter, mitigated or exempted punishment prescribed in the Administrative Penalty Law of the People's Republic of China exist, the punishment shall be lighter, mitigated or exempted in accordance with its provisions.
Article 97 Where water is diverted, intercepted (stored) or drained, harming the public interest or the lawful rights and interests of others, civil liability shall be borne in accordance with the law.
Article 98 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, an act constitutes a violation of public security administration, the public security organs shall impose public security administration penalties in accordance with the law; where a crime is constituted, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance with the law.
Chapter IX Supplementary Provisions
Article 99 The meanings of the following terms used in this Law:
(1) "Water projects" means various projects for the protection, development, utilization, control and allocation of water resources on rivers, lakes and underground water sources.
(2) "River-related construction projects" means the construction of wharf projects (including ferry terminals) crossing rivers, passing through rivers, passing through dikes, or adjacent to rivers, bridge projects, road projects, railway projects, pipeline (tunnel) projects, cable projects, shipbuilding (repair, demolition) projects, waterway regulation projects, shoal and bank regulation projects, water intake and drainage facilities, etc.
Article 100 Where international treaties and agreements 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 and agreements shall apply. However, the provisions on which the People's Republic of China has declared reservations are excepted.
Article 101 Where, in engaging in flood control activities, the Flood Control Law of the People's Republic of China and other relevant laws have other provisions, those provisions shall apply.
Article 102 This Law shall come into force on March 22, 2027.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 6)
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 11) (Reporter Wang Zheng) The latest statistics released by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers show that in October, China's automobile exports continued to maintain rapid growth, with monthly exports reaching 1.066 million vehicles, up 1.3% month-on-month and 60.2% year-on-year. From January to October, automobile exports reached 9.271 million vehicles, up 65.1% year-on-year.
In October, exports of new energy vehicles reached 606,000 vehicles, up 6.2% month-on-month and 1.4 times year-on-year; exports of traditional fuel vehicles reached 460,000 vehicles, down 4.6% month-on-month and up 12.3% year-on-year. The share of new energy vehicles in total exports has exceeded 50% for five consecutive months.
From January to October, exports of new energy vehicles reached 4.612 million vehicles, up 1.3 times year-on-year; exports of traditional fuel vehicles reached 4.659 million vehicles, up 29.4% year-on-year.
From January to October, production and sales of new energy vehicles reached 14.509 million and 14.411 million units respectively, up 11.5% and 11.3% year-on-year respectively, with sales of new energy vehicles accounting for 54.8% of total new vehicle sales.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘军国
As the weather turns cooler, the elderly living alone in Jinshan Community, Cixi City, Ningbo, Zhejiang, feel warmth in their hearts. "Auntie, call me if anything comes up." Qian Haijun, community manager at the customer service center of State Grid Zhejiang Cixi Power Supply Company, went over winter electricity safety precautions again and again, then wrote down his phone number. Every year when winter arrives, Qian Haijun makes the rounds of this old residential area; which households have elderly living alone, which households have complex electrical equipment — he knows it all perfectly clear and unmistakable (一清二楚, yi qing er chu - "one, clear, two, distinct").
Qian Haijun has kept up this kind of busy schedule for many years. In 2015, he surveyed families of disabled people in Cixi, discovered a large number of electrical hazards, and took the lead in launching the "Thousand Households, Ten Thousand Lights" public welfare project, providing free renovation of indoor lighting circuits for people in difficulty. His phone is on 24 hours a day, and he is available immediately upon request (随叫随到, sui jiao sui dao - "follow, call, follow, arrive"). "I am willing to be a lamp, lighting up others and warming myself." Qian Haijun often says.
State Grid Ningbo Power Supply Company has built a "Six Hearts, Six Types" model-led system, learning the precious qualities of "Model of the Times" Qian Haijun, and matching six types of organizational forms that carry these qualities, turning individual good deeds into a model for action by all employees.
At the dispatch and control center of State Grid Ningbo Yinzhou District Power Supply Company, Zhang Jiming, squad leader of the automated operation and maintenance squad, moves through the dispatch and control center, checking the operating condition of distribution network equipment.
"Distributed FA (feeder automation) is like a CT machine for the power grid; it can quickly complete fault location, isolation, and restoration," Zhang Jiming said. In the early years, line faults relied entirely on manual line patrols for handling, and power outages often lasted most of the day. Yinzhou District was among the first batch of national pilots for the FA self-healing system. How could the system be built well? Zhang Jiming led his team in immersing themselves deeply into (一头扎进, yi tou zha jin - "one, head, plunge, into") research. In two months, he designed more than 100 drafts of drawings and took the lead in making more than 10 circuit boards. After more than a year of repeated testing, they finally developed a power module capable of withstanding high-voltage surges.
Enterprises have increasingly high requirements for power supply stability. How could fault recovery time be shortened further? Zhang Jiming once again led his team in gnawing at this "hard bone." The team ultimately achieved millisecond-level mechanical action and built a distributed feeder automation system. Power restoration time was compressed to 0.1 seconds, reducing potential losses for enterprises by more than 1 billion yuan each year.
On the shore of the East China Sea, beams of faint light converge into strength, silently guarding the lamps of thousands of households.
The 220 kV Hongtang Substation relocation and construction project is the largest of its kind in Ningbo. Difficult project approval coordination, high construction risks, and heavy schedule pressure once put the project in a difficult position. Party member backbone members of the team took the lead in breaking convention, working backward from deadlines to seize the schedule, and formulating a "micro pipe jacking" plan to build underground cable channels... After three years of working hard day and night to overcome difficulties (日夜攻坚, ri ye gong jian - "sun, moon, attack, tough spot"), this substation went from blueprint to benchmark.
Ningbo has dense industrial parks, and manufacturing enterprises generally face the dual demands of energy use and carbon reduction, with no ready-made reference for green and low-carbon transformation. The "Electricity-Carbon" integrated service team repeatedly conducted deduction and demonstration around enterprises' full-cycle energy use and carbon control needs, proposed a "power supply + energy efficiency + carbon efficiency" collaborative service model, piloted it in 12 parks, and benefited 718 enterprises.
"Qian Haijun built a volunteer service cluster with a spirit of dedication and warmth; Zhang Jiming delved into technological innovation with a craftsman's heart and an exploratory heart... The 'Six Hearts, Six Types' system drives power workers to take root in their posts and get practical things done," said Wang Xiang, member of the Party committee and chairman of the trade union of State Grid Ningbo Power Supply Company. "The 'Six Hearts, Six Types' model-led system is the company's practice of using models to drive the deep integration of Party building and business work."
As the "Six Hearts, Six Types" system has been gradually implemented, State Grid Ningbo Power Supply Company has formed a tiered talent structure, with overall labor productivity rising 21.8% in three years. The "Thousand Households, Ten Thousand Lights" public welfare project has reached 7 provinces and benefited more than 70,000 people.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 11) (Reporter Wu Dan) Recently, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs jointly issued the "Notice on Implementing the Special Enrollment Plan for Institutions of Higher Education Serving Rural Revitalization," adjusting the special enrollment plan for key institutions of higher education targeting rural and impoverished areas, which has been implemented since 2012, into the special enrollment plan for institutions of higher education serving rural revitalization. The policy adjustment sets a three-year transition period and will take effect starting with the 2030 college entrance examination enrollment.
The notice clarifies that the implementation areas of the rural revitalization special plan are divided into national-level and local-level categories. Among them, the national-level implementation areas include national key assistance counties for rural revitalization and provincial-level key assistance counties for rural revitalization in the central and western regions, as well as implementation areas in Tibet and Xinjiang determined in accordance with relevant national regulations, where undergraduate institutions directly under central departments and local public undergraduate institutions under each province (autonomous region, municipality) will carry out enrollment; the local-level implementation areas shall be determined by the relevant provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) in a scientific and reasonable manner (科学合理, ke xue he li - "science, rationality") based on factors such as the province's economic development level and basic education level, with enrollment mainly carried out by local public institutions, while undergraduate institutions directly under central departments provide appropriate support to underdeveloped regions and regions with weak educational foundations.
Return to TopOrder of the President of the People's Republic of China
No. 88
The Water Law of the People's Republic of China was revised and adopted at the 25th meeting 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, to come into force on March 22, 2027.
Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China
November 6, 2026
Table of Contents
Chapter I General Provisions
Chapter II Water Resources Planning
Chapter III Water Resources Protection and Development and Utilization
Chapter IV Water Resources Allocation and Economical Use
Chapter V Management and Protection of Rivers and Lakes
Chapter VI Construction and Operation of Water Projects
Chapter VII Handling of Water Disputes and Supervision and Inspection
Chapter VIII Legal Liability
Chapter IX Supplementary Provisions
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 This Law is enacted in accordance with the Constitution for the purposes of protecting, rationally developing, utilizing and economizing on water resources, preventing and controlling water disasters, achieving the sustainable utilization of water resources, safeguarding national water security, promoting high-quality development of the economy and society, and realizing living in harmony with nature (和谐共生, he xie gong sheng - "harmony, together, live, grow") and the sustainable development of the Chinese nation.
Article 2 This Law applies to the protection, development, utilization and economization of water resources and the prevention and control of water disasters within the territory of the People's Republic of China.
Water resources as mentioned in this Law include surface water and groundwater.
The development, utilization, protection and management of seawater shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions of relevant laws and administrative regulations.
Article 3 Water resources are owned by the state. The ownership of water resources is exercised by the State Council on behalf of the state. The water in ponds of rural collective economic organizations and in reservoirs constructed and managed by rural collective economic organizations shall be used by the respective rural collective economic organizations.
Article 4 In protecting, developing, utilizing and economizing on water resources and preventing and controlling water disasters, the line, principles, policies, decisions and arrangements of the Party and the state and the thinking on water governance shall be implemented and carried out; the principles of giving priority to water conservation, achieving spatial balance, and pursuing systematic governance shall be upheld; the coordinated exertion of the role of the government and the market mechanism shall be upheld; the principles of comprehensive planning, taking all factors into account (统筹兼顾, tong chou jian gu - "overall, plan, take into account, consider"), treating both the symptoms and the root causes (标本兼治, biao ben jian zhi - "symptom, root, treat, cure"), comprehensive utilization, and stressing results shall be followed; the multiple functions of water resources shall be brought into play; and the governance of water resources, water ecology, water environment and water disasters shall be coordinated as a whole.
Article 5 The state, with the goal of comprehensively enhancing the capacity to safeguard water security and with the focus on improving the system for the optimal allocation of water resources, the system for flood prevention and disaster reduction in river basins, and the system for water ecology protection and governance, coordinates the existing stock and incremental additions, strengthens interconnection and intercommunication, and accelerates the construction of a national water network that is complete and reliable in system, intensive, efficient, green and intelligent, and smooth in circulation and orderly in regulation and control.
Article 6 The state takes measures to strengthen the protection of water resources.
The state implements a system of rigid constraints on water resources, upholds the principles of determining the scale of cities, the layout of land, the size of population and the pattern of industry by water availability, optimizes the pattern of territorial space development and protection, promotes the scientific and rational layout of population and cities, builds a modern industrial system compatible with the carrying capacity of water resources, and promotes the intensive and economical utilization of water resources.
Article 7 The state protects the lawful rights and interests of units and individuals that rationally develop and utilize water resources in accordance with the law.
Units and individuals that develop and utilize water resources have the obligation to protect water resources in accordance with the law.
Article 8 The state implements, in accordance with the law, a licensing system for water withdrawal and a system of paid use of water resources. However, the use by rural collective economic organizations and their members of water in ponds and reservoirs of their own collective economic organizations is excepted.
Article 9 The state strictly practices water conservation, upholds and implements the policy of giving priority to water conservation, implements the national water conservation action, strengthens water conservation in agriculture, industry and urban areas, establishes incentive and constraint mechanisms, and comprehensively builds a water-conserving society.
All units and individuals have the obligation to conserve water.
Article 10 The state establishes and improves a system for the prevention and control of water disasters compatible with economic and social development, strengthens risk assessment of water disasters, monitoring, forecasting, early warning, defense and emergency response, and improves the capacity for disaster prevention, mitigation and relief.
The state establishes and improves a system for strategic reserves of water resources security.
Article 11 People's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen the construction of water conservancy infrastructure and incorporate it into the national economic and social development plans and territorial space plans at the corresponding level.
Article 12 People's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with the principle of division of financial powers and expenditure responsibilities, provide support for work such as the protection and economization of water resources and the prevention and control of water disasters.
The state establishes, as needed, a fund for major water conservancy project construction, and the specific measures shall be formulated by the State Council.
The state guides social capital to participate, in accordance with the law, in activities such as the protection, rational development, utilization and economization of water resources and the prevention and control of water disasters, and protects its lawful rights and interests, and encourages financial institutions to provide diversified financial services in accordance with the principles of marketization and rule of law.
Article 13 The state implements a management system for water resources that combines river basin management with administrative region management.
The water administrative department of the State Council is responsible for the unified management and supervision of water resources nationwide. Other relevant departments of the State Council are responsible, in accordance with their respective functions and division of duties, for the relevant work of water resources protection, development, utilization, economization and the prevention and control of water disasters.
The river basin management organs (hereinafter referred to as river basin management organs) established by the water administrative department of the State Council for the important rivers and lakes designated by the state, and their subordinate management organs, exercise, within the scope under their jurisdiction, the water resources management and supervision duties prescribed by laws and administrative regulations and granted by the water administrative department of the State Council.
The water administrative departments of local people's governments at or above the county level are responsible, within the limits of authority prescribed, for the unified management and supervision of water resources within their respective administrative regions. Other relevant departments of local people's governments at or above the county level are responsible, in accordance with their respective functions and division of duties, for the relevant work of water resources protection, development, utilization, economization and the prevention and control of water disasters within their respective administrative regions.
Article 14 The state implements the river and lake chief system and establishes a four-level system of river and lake chiefs at the provincial, municipal, county and township levels. River and lake chiefs at all levels are responsible for the relevant work of management and protection of rivers and lakes (including reservoirs) within their respective administrative regions and for coordinating and resolving major problems. The water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level are responsible for the specific organizational implementation work of the river and lake chief system.
Article 15 The state encourages and supports the research, promotion and application of water conservancy science and technology, strengthens the construction of water conservancy informatization, and enhances the level of automation, digitalization and intelligence of water conservancy work.
The water administrative department of the State Council shall organize the establishment and improvement of a system of water conservancy technical standards.
Article 16 The state strengthens the protection of water cultural heritage, inherits and promotes water culture, and promotes the flourishing and development of water culture.
People's governments at all levels and their relevant departments shall, in various forms, strengthen publicity and education on laws, regulations and relevant knowledge concerning the protection and economization of water resources and the prevention and control of water disasters, raise the awareness of the whole society regarding the protection and economization of water resources and the prevention and control of water disasters, and encourage units and individuals to participate in activities such as the protection and economization of water resources and the prevention and control of water disasters.
Article 17 With respect to important water-related ecological environment problems and the circumstances of dereliction of duty and failure to fulfill responsibilities discovered in ecological environment protection inspections and in the rectification thereof, accountability and responsibility investigation shall be pursued in accordance with state regulations.
Article 18 Units and individuals that have made outstanding achievements in the protection, rational development, utilization and economization of water resources and the prevention and control of water disasters shall be commended and rewarded in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state.
Chapter II Water Resources Planning
Article 19 The state strengthens the overall planning of the protection, development, utilization and economization of water resources and the prevention and control of water disasters, and coordinates water use for domestic, production and ecological purposes.
Article 20 The state formulates a national comprehensive plan for water resources, making overall arrangements for the rational allocation, effective protection, intensive and economical utilization of water resources and the prevention and control of water disasters, and implements it after approval in accordance with the prescribed limits of authority and procedures.
Article 21 The comprehensive river basin plans for the important rivers and lakes designated by the state shall be formulated by the water administrative department of the State Council jointly with the relevant departments of the State Council and the people's governments of the relevant provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and implemented after approval in accordance with the prescribed limits of authority and procedures. The comprehensive river basin plans for other rivers and lakes crossing provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall be formulated by the relevant river basin management organs jointly with the water administrative departments and relevant departments of the people's governments of the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government where the rivers and lakes are located, and submitted to the water administrative department of the State Council for review; after the water administrative department of the State Council solicits the opinions of the relevant departments of the State Council and the people's governments of the relevant provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, the plans shall be implemented after approval in accordance with the prescribed limits of authority and procedures.
The comprehensive river basin plans for other rivers and lakes other than those prescribed in the preceding paragraph shall be formulated by the water administrative departments of local people's governments at or above the county level jointly with the relevant departments and the relevant local people's governments in light of actual needs, submitted to the people's government at the corresponding level or the department authorized by it for approval, and filed with the water administrative department at the next higher level.
The comprehensive river basin plan is an important basis for the protection, development, utilization and economization of water resources and the prevention and control of water disasters in the river basin. Water-related plans within the river basin and within administrative regions shall be subordinate to the comprehensive river basin plan.
Article 22 In formulating plans, comprehensive scientific surveys and investigation and evaluation of water resources shall be taken as the basis, and the plans shall be coordinated with national economic and social development plans and territorial space plans. The comprehensive scientific surveys and investigation and evaluation of water resources shall be organized and conducted by the water administrative departments and natural resources departments of people's governments at or above the county level jointly with relevant departments, and the relevant results shall be published in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state.
In formulating plans, the mechanism for public participation and the system of expert consultation and demonstration shall be improved, and means such as modern information technology shall be comprehensively applied to improve the quality of plan formulation.
Article 23 The state strengthens the construction, management and protection of hydrological station networks. The water administrative department of the State Council, jointly with the relevant departments of the State Council, makes unified plans for the national hydrological monitoring network system, optimizes and improves the layout of hydrological station networks, and enhances the capacity for hydrological monitoring, forecasting, early warning and supervision.
The water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level and the river basin management organs shall, in accordance with the limits of management authority, uniformly publish to the public hydrological and water resources information, hydrological information, forecasts, early warnings, and water resources bulletins. Basic hydrological data shall be made public in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state.
Article 24 Once approved, plans shall be strictly implemented. The relevant departments of people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of plans.
Where an approved plan needs to be revised, it shall be submitted for approval in accordance with the original approval procedures.
The reasonable needs of plans involving land and space use shall be incorporated into the implementation supervision system of territorial space plans for coordinated guarantee.
Chapter III Water Resources Protection and Development and Utilization
Article 25 The state protects water resources, takes effective measures to protect vegetation, plants trees and grasses in light of local conditions, conserves water sources, prevents and controls soil erosion and water body pollution, and improves the ecological environment.
Article 26 The formulation of national economic and social development plans, overall territorial space plans and the layout of major construction projects shall be compatible with local water resources conditions and flood control requirements. In water-scarce areas, restrictions shall be imposed on the scale of cities and on industrial, agricultural and service industry projects with high water consumption in construction.
The state establishes and improves a system for demonstrating the water resources of construction projects and relevant plans involving the development and utilization of water resources.
Article 27 Where, as a result of the development and utilization of water resources, consequences such as the degradation of the use functions of river and lake waters, over-extraction of groundwater, depletion of water sources, land subsidence, seawater intrusion, and water environment pollution are caused, remedial measures shall be taken and the responsibility for treatment shall be borne.
Where, in mining mineral deposits or constructing underground projects, the dewatering and drainage and other activities cause the decline of the groundwater level, depletion of water sources or ground collapse, the mining unit or the construction unit shall take remedial measures and bear the responsibility for treatment.
Article 28 The state establishes and improves a system for the zoning of water function areas.
The competent department of ecological environment of the State Council, jointly with the relevant departments of the State Council such as those for development and reform and water administration, in light of the level of economic and social development and in accordance with the requirements of water ecological environment protection plans and comprehensive river basin plans, formulates the water function zoning for the important rivers and lakes designated by the state, and submits it to the State Council for approval. The water function zoning for other rivers and lakes shall be formulated by the competent departments of ecological environment of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government jointly with the relevant departments such as those for development and reform and water administration, submitted to the people's government at the corresponding level or the department authorized by it for approval, and filed with the competent department of ecological environment of the State Council. Where an approved water function zoning needs to be revised, it shall be submitted for approval in accordance with the original approval procedures.
The competent departments of ecological environment of local people's governments at or above the level of cities divided into districts and the river basin ecological environment supervision and management organs shall monitor the water ecological environment quality of water function areas, and where the water ecological environment quality is found not to meet the requirements, they shall promptly report to the relevant people's government to take treatment measures.
Article 29 The state strengthens the protection of drinking water source areas and implements directory management of drinking water source areas.
The water administrative department of the State Council, jointly with the relevant departments of the State Council, formulates the national directory of important drinking water source areas. The water administrative departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, jointly with the relevant departments, formulate the directories of other drinking water source areas within their respective administrative regions.
The water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen the management of drinking water source areas and regularly organize safety assessments of drinking water source areas.
Article 30 The state strengthens the management and protection of groundwater and prevents and controls over-extraction of groundwater.
The water administrative department of the State Council, jointly with the competent department of natural resources of the State Council, organizes the delimitation of national groundwater over-extraction areas and publishes them to the public in accordance with the law. In groundwater over-extraction areas, local people's governments at or above the county level shall take measures to strictly control the extraction of groundwater and gradually achieve a balance between groundwater extraction and recharge.
The water administrative departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, jointly with the relevant departments such as those for natural resources, in light of actual needs and with overall consideration of factors such as the delimitation of groundwater over-extraction areas, the utilization of groundwater and geological environment conditions, organize the delimitation of groundwater prohibited extraction zones and restricted extraction zones within their respective administrative regions, publish them after approval by the people's governments of the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and file them with the water administrative department of the State Council. Where, after the delimitation of groundwater prohibited extraction zones and restricted extraction zones, adjustment is truly necessary, the adjustment shall be carried out in accordance with the original delimitation procedures.
In coastal areas, the extraction of groundwater shall be subject to scientific demonstration, and measures shall be taken to prevent land subsidence and seawater intrusion.
Article 31 The state establishes a groundwater reserve system. Except in special drought years and in the event of major emergencies, groundwater reserves shall not be used.
Article 32 In developing and utilizing water resources, the principles of giving priority to conservation and protection and combining the promotion of benefits with the elimination of harms shall be upheld, the interests of upstream and downstream, left and right banks, main streams and tributaries, and the relevant regions shall be taken into account, the comprehensive benefits of water resources shall be brought into full play, and the overall arrangements for flood control shall be complied with.
Article 33 In developing and utilizing water resources, priority shall be given to meeting the domestic water needs of urban and rural residents, ensuring basic ecological water use and water for food security, and coordinating the needs of agriculture, industry, ecological restoration and navigation.
In developing and utilizing water resources in arid and semi-arid areas, full consideration shall be given to the needs of ecological water use.
Article 34 No unit or individual may, in diverting water, intercepting (storing) water, or draining water, harm the public interest or the lawful rights and interests of others.
Article 35 Where people's governments at or above the county level organize the implementation of water diversion projects, comprehensive planning and scientific demonstration shall be carried out, the water use security and ecological security of both the water-exporting area and the water-receiving area shall be taken into account, the management of water conservation in the water-receiving area shall be strengthened, unconventional water such as local reclaimed water shall be rationally utilized, the allocation of water resources shall be optimized, the carrying capacity of water resources shall be enhanced, and damage to the ecological environment shall be prevented.
Article 36 Local people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen the work of farmland water conservancy and soil and water conservation, organize the water administrative departments and the competent departments of agriculture and rural affairs to make overall arrangements for the construction and operation and maintenance of water sources, backbone irrigation district projects, field canal systems, etc., and establish and improve the farmland irrigation and drainage system; in areas prone to salinization and waterlogging damage and in areas with concentrated saline-alkali farmland, measures shall be taken to control and lower the groundwater level.
Article 37 The state supports the rational development and utilization of hydropower resources, carries out multi-objective comprehensive development in light of local conditions on rivers rich in hydropower, and strictly controls the development and construction of small hydropower stations.
In constructing and renovating hydropower stations, the ecological environment shall be protected, and the needs of flood control, water supply, irrigation, navigation, fishery and other aspects shall be taken into account.
Article 38 The state encourages the development and utilization of water transport resources. Where permanent river-crossing sluice dams are newly built, rebuilt or expanded on rivers that are migration channels for aquatic organisms or are navigable, the construction unit shall simultaneously construct fish passage and ship passage facilities, or take other remedial measures approved by the department authorized by the State Council, and properly arrange for the protection of aquatic organisms and navigation during the construction and water storage periods, with the necessary expenses borne by the construction unit.
Where, after the construction of sluice dams on non-navigable rivers or artificial waterways, navigation becomes possible, the unit constructing the sluice dams shall simultaneously construct ship passage facilities or reserve space for ship passage facilities.
Where navigation structures such as ship locks are constructed on rivers or artificial waterways, the state may, as circumstances warrant, permit the implementation of a toll system for passing vessels.
Chapter IV Water Resources Allocation and Economical Use
Article 39 In regulating and storing runoff and allocating water volumes, water volume allocation plans shall be formulated on the basis of comprehensive river basin plans and with the river basin as the unit.
Water volume allocation plans crossing provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government and water volume dispatch plans for emergency situations such as drought conditions shall be formulated by the river basin management organs in consultation with the people's governments of the relevant provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and implemented after approval by the State Council or the department authorized by the State Council. Other water volume allocation plans crossing administrative regions and water volume dispatch plans for emergency situations such as drought conditions shall be formulated by the water administrative departments of the common next higher level people's governments in consultation with the relevant local people's governments, and implemented after approval by the people's government at the corresponding level.
After the water volume allocation plans and the water volume dispatch plans for emergency situations such as drought conditions are approved, the relevant local people's governments shall strictly implement them.
In constructing water resources development and utilization projects on rivers between different administrative regions, the approved water volume allocation plans for the river basin shall be complied with, and the projects shall be submitted by the relevant local people's governments at or above the county level to the water administrative departments of the common next higher level people's governments or the relevant river basin management organs for approval.
Article 40 The water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level and the river basin management organs shall, in accordance with the limits of management authority and on the basis of the approved water volume allocation plans, ecological flow control indicators and the annual forecast of incoming water, formulate annual water volume allocation plans and water resources dispatch plans and implement unified dispatch of water resources. The relevant local people's governments and their relevant departments and the management units of water projects shall comply with the unified dispatch of water resources.
The unified dispatch of water resources implements total volume control, cross-section flow (water volume, water level) control, graded management and graded responsibility, and is dynamically adjusted in light of changes in water conditions.
Water resources dispatch shall be properly coordinated with flood dispatch, and, on the premise of ensuring safety, the effective supply of water resources shall be increased through measures such as the utilization of flood resources and storing water in wet years for use in dry years.
Article 41 The state implements a system of total groundwater extraction control and water level control to ensure the sustainable utilization of groundwater. The formulation and issuance of the indicators for total groundwater extraction control and water level control shall be carried out in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state.
Article 42 The state implements a system for water use that combines total volume control with quota management.
The water administrative department of the State Council and the standardization administrative department organize the formulation of national water use quotas for major crops, key industrial products and the service industry, etc. The people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government may, in light of actual needs, formulate local water use quotas that are stricter than the national water use quotas; where no national water use quota has been formulated, local water use quotas may be formulated as supplements.
The water administrative departments of local people's governments at or above the county level, jointly with the relevant departments, formulate annual water use plans for their respective administrative regions on the basis of water use quotas, economic and technical conditions, and the water volumes available for use in their respective administrative regions as determined by water volume allocation plans and groundwater control indicators, and implement total volume control over annual water use.
Article 43 Units and individuals that withdraw and use water resources from rivers, lakes or underground shall, in accordance with the law, apply to the water administrative departments or the river basin management organs for water withdrawal permits, obtain water withdrawal rights, and pay water resources taxes in accordance with the law. However, small quantities of water withdrawal for household use and for drinking by scattered and pen-raised livestock and poultry, as well as cases where laws and administrative regulations provide that no water withdrawal permit is required, are excepted.
The specific measures for implementing the water withdrawal licensing system shall be formulated by the State Council.
Article 44 The state implements differentiated control over water resources in light of the carrying capacity of water resources. The water administrative department of the State Council, jointly with the competent department of natural resources of the State Council, organizes the evaluation of the carrying capacity of water resources, keeps timely track of the carrying capacity of water resources and its changes, and establishes and dynamically updates a directory of water resources overloaded areas. In water resources overloaded areas, new water withdrawal permits shall be suspended in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state.
The people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government in water resources overloaded areas shall organize the formulation of treatment plans for water resources overload and implement comprehensive treatment by taking measures such as water conservation, industrial structure adjustment, scientific water diversion, and water source replacement.
Article 45 Water withdrawal and use shall be metered, and water shall be withdrawn and used in accordance with the approved water withdrawal and use plans. Where the water withdrawal volume reaches or exceeds the water withdrawal scale, online metering facilities shall be installed, the normal operation of the facilities shall be ensured, and the metering data shall be transmitted to the water administrative departments or river basin management organs with management authority. The water withdrawal scale shall be prescribed and published by the water administrative departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and filed with the water administrative department of the State Council.
Article 46 Water use is subject to metered charging. The state establishes and improves a water pricing formation mechanism compatible with the level of economic and social development, the state of water resources, the cost of water supply, the affordability of water users and water conservation requirements, so as to promote the intensive and economical utilization of water resources.
Where water supplied by water projects is used, water charges shall be paid to the water supply units in accordance with the provisions. The specific measures shall be formulated by the people's governments at or above the provincial level or their price authorities.
Article 47 People's governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments shall strengthen the management of water conservation and promote water conservation measures; establish a system for the development and promotion of water conservation technologies, promote new water conservation technologies and processes, and cultivate and develop the water conservation industry.
Article 48 Newly built, rebuilt and expanded construction projects shall formulate plans for water conservation measures and construct supporting water conservation facilities. The water conservation facilities shall be designed, constructed and put into use simultaneously with the main project, and their normal operation shall be ensured. The investment in the construction of water conservation facilities shall be included in the total investment of the construction project.
Article 49 Local people's governments at or above the county level shall, in light of local water resources conditions, strengthen the treatment and reuse of sewage, incorporate unconventional water such as reclaimed water, collected rainwater, seawater and desalinated seawater, mine (pit) water, and brackish water into the unified allocation of water resources, and make overall plans for and construct facilities for the development and utilization of unconventional water.
Article 50 The state gradually eliminates backward technologies, processes, equipment and products with high water consumption, and the specific directory shall be formulated and published by the development and reform department of the State Council jointly with the relevant departments of the State Council such as those for industry and information technology, water administration, and housing and urban-rural development. The production, import and sale of the equipment and products listed in the above directory are prohibited. Users in production and operation shall stop using the technologies, processes, equipment and products listed in the above directory within a prescribed time limit.
Article 51 Local people's governments at or above the county level shall promote water-conserving irrigation methods and water conservation technologies, take necessary anti-seepage measures for agricultural water storage and conveyance projects, improve the efficiency of agricultural water use, strengthen the construction and renovation of irrigation districts, and develop water-conserving agriculture.
Industrial and service industry enterprises shall adopt advanced and applicable water conservation technologies, processes and equipment, increase the number of cycles of water use, and improve the rate of water reuse. Where the water use level of high water-consuming industrial enterprises exceeds the water use quota, water conservation renovation shall be carried out within a prescribed time limit.
Article 52 Local people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen the overall coordination of domestic, production and ecological water use within built-up urban areas, implement water conservation requirements in all aspects of urban planning, construction and governance, and comprehensively promote the construction of water-conserving cities.
Public institutions shall play an exemplary role in water conservation, establish and improve water conservation management systems, change water use methods, strictly implement water use quotas, take targeted water conservation renovation measures, and improve the efficiency of water resources utilization.
Local people's governments at or above the county level shall take measures to encourage the use of reclaimed water that meets standard requirements. Water use for urban greening, road cleaning, car washing and toilet flushing, construction, and ecological landscapes shall give priority to the use of reclaimed water that meets standard requirements.
Article 53 The state implements a system of ecological protection compensation, and provides compensation to regions, units and individuals that carry out water ecological environment protection in accordance with the provisions or agreements.
The state cultivates and regulates the water use rights trading market and supports the lawful conduct of water use rights trading.
Article 54 Local people's governments at or above the county level shall take measures to promote the coordinated development of urban and rural water supply and improve the level of urban and rural water supply security.
Chapter V Management and Protection of Rivers and Lakes
Article 55 The state coordinates the management and protection of rivers and lakes and establishes a system of regular surveys of rivers and lakes. The water administrative department of the State Council organizes surveys of rivers and lakes and implements directory management of rivers and lakes.
Article 56 The management of rivers and lakes implements the principle of combining unified management by river basin with graded management by region.
The important rivers and lakes designated by the state, the important rivers and lakes crossing provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, the rivers and lakes on provincial boundaries between provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and the rivers and lakes on national (border) boundaries shall be managed in accordance with the law by the river basin management organs and the water administrative departments of the people's governments of the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government where the rivers and lakes are located, in accordance with the delimitation of the water administrative department of the State Council. Other rivers and lakes shall be managed in accordance with the law by the water administrative departments of local people's governments at or above the county level, in accordance with the delimitation of the water administrative department of the State Council or the river basin management organs.
Article 57 Management scope shall be delimited for rivers and lakes. For rivers and lakes with dikes, the management scope is the waters, sandbars and floodplains between the dikes on both banks, and the dikes and the land for protecting the dikes; for rivers and lakes without dikes, the management scope is the waters, sandbars and floodplains between the historical highest flood level or the design flood level.
The management scope of rivers and lakes directly managed by river basin management organs shall be delimited by the river basin management organs jointly with the relevant local people's governments at or above the county level; the management scope of other rivers and lakes shall be delimited by the relevant local people's governments at or above the county level. The management scope of rivers and lakes shall be announced to the public, and markers shall be set up at the boundaries of the management scope.
Where dikes of rivers and lakes are newly built, rebuilt or expanded, the management scope of the rivers and lakes shall be promptly adjusted in accordance with the provisions of the first and second paragraphs of this Article.
Article 58 It is prohibited to illegally encroach upon and illegally utilize or occupy the waters and shorelines of rivers and lakes, to reclaim land from lakes, to reclaim river channels for cultivation, and to fill in rivers and lakes. Where encroachment or reclamation has already occurred, local people's governments at or above the county level shall organize, in a planned manner, the return of land to rivers and lakes.
Article 59 It is prohibited to construct buildings and structures that obstruct flood discharge within the management scope of rivers and lakes, and to engage in activities that affect the stability of river regimes, endanger the safety of river banks and dikes, or otherwise obstruct flood discharge. For rivers and lakes with severe siltation, dredging and ecological restoration shall be carried out promptly; the silt produced may, on the premise of ensuring flood control safety and ecological safety and not reducing the actual storage capacity of lakes, be comprehensively utilized and disposed of in light of local conditions.
River-related construction projects shall follow the principles of being truly necessary, unavoidable, and ensuring safety, comply with flood control standards and shoreline control requirements, and shall not endanger the safety of dikes, affect the stability of river regimes, arbitrarily change the use of waters and floodplains, reduce flood discharge and regulation and storage capacity, or reduce the area of waters; where it is truly impossible to avoid reducing flood discharge and regulation and storage capacity or reducing the area of waters, necessary equivalent replacement projects shall be constructed simultaneously or other necessary functional remedial measures shall be taken.
Before the commencement of construction of a river-related construction project, its engineering construction plan shall be submitted to the water administrative departments or the river basin management organs for examination and approval. Where, due to the construction of a river-related construction project, it is necessary to expand, rebuild, demolish or damage existing water projects, the construction unit shall bear the costs of expanding, rebuilding and repairing the water projects and the compensation for losses.
Article 60 The use of land within the management scope of rivers and lakes shall comply with the requirements of flood discharge, water conveyance and ecological environment protection.
No new forest land or cultivated land may be added within the management scope of rivers and lakes; where the already delimited forest land and cultivated land affect flood control safety, the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall organize their adjustment and withdrawal in accordance with the law in a steady and orderly manner.
Where the construction and management of nature reserves involve the management scope of rivers and lakes, the needs of river and lake protection shall be taken into overall consideration, flood control requirements shall be met, and the development of flood control project construction and management activities shall be ensured.
Article 61 The state implements a licensing system for the extraction of sand, gravel and earth within the management scope of rivers and lakes. The specific measures shall be formulated by the State Council.
The river basin management organs and local people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with the plans and the limits of management authority, delimit prohibited extraction areas and prescribe prohibited extraction periods, and announce them to the public.
It is prohibited to transport, purchase or sell sand, gravel and earth extracted by units or individuals that have not obtained licenses in accordance with the law.
Article 62 Local people's governments at or above the county level may, in light of actual circumstances, delimit shoreline protection scope in a certain area extending landward from the boundaries of the management scope of rivers and lakes, and activities affecting flood control safety and the ecological environment shall be strictly controlled within the shoreline protection scope. The measures for shoreline protection shall be formulated by the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government.
Article 63 The state strengthens the guarantee of ecological water use for rivers and lakes. The water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level and the river basin management organs shall, in accordance with the limits of management authority, determine the control indicators for ecological flow at control sections of rivers, the control indicators for ecological water levels of lakes, and the indicators for ecological flow discharge of water projects. In determining the control indicators for ecological flow and ecological water levels and the indicators for ecological flow discharge of water projects, comprehensive consideration shall be given to factors such as water resources conditions, climatic conditions, ecological environment protection requirements, and domestic and production water use conditions, and the opinions of the relevant departments shall be solicited and studied.
Newly built, rebuilt and expanded water projects shall meet the requirements for ecological flow discharge; where existing water projects cannot meet the requirements for ecological flow discharge, renovation measures shall be taken.
Water projects shall incorporate ecological water dispatch into their routine operation and dispatch procedures.
Article 64 For rivers and lakes with deteriorating ecology, people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen treatment and restoration, make overall use of measures such as ecological water replenishment, biological purification, ecological dredging, and connectivity of rivers and lakes, carry out comprehensive treatment of the ecosystems of rivers and lakes, and improve and restore the ecosystems of rivers and lakes.
Chapter VI Construction and Operation of Water Projects
Article 65 The construction of water projects shall comply with comprehensive river basin plans. Where water projects are constructed on the important rivers and lakes designated by the state and on rivers and lakes crossing provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, the construction unit shall not commence construction unless the relevant river basin management organs have examined and approved whether the projects comply with the requirements of the comprehensive river basin plans; where water projects are constructed on other rivers and lakes, the construction unit shall not commence construction unless the water administrative departments of local people's governments at or above the county level have examined and approved whether the projects comply with the requirements of the comprehensive river basin plans. Where the construction of water projects involves flood control, the relevant provisions of the Flood Control Law of the People's Republic of China shall apply. Where the construction of water projects involves other regions and industries, the construction unit shall solicit and study the opinions of the relevant regions and departments in advance.
Article 66 In engaging in the construction of water projects, the basic construction procedures shall be strictly followed to ensure project quality and safety. In engaging in the survey, design, construction, supervision and quality inspection of water projects, the corresponding qualifications shall be obtained in accordance with the law, and the relevant activities shall be carried out within the scope permitted by the qualifications.
In newly building, rebuilding, expanding and reinforcing water projects such as reservoir dams, dikes, channels and sluices, supporting facilities such as hydrological facilities shall be constructed in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state.
Water projects shall be accepted in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state; those that have not been accepted in accordance with the provisions or have failed acceptance shall not be put into use or proceed with subsequent project construction. The measures for the acceptance of water projects shall be formulated by the water administrative department of the State Council and other relevant departments in accordance with their respective functions.
Article 67 Where rural collective economic organizations or their members invest, in accordance with the law, in the construction of water projects on land collectively owned by the members of their own collective economic organizations and on state-owned land lawfully used collectively by peasant collectives, the water projects and the water stored therein shall be managed and rationally used in accordance with the principle that whoever invests in the construction manages and whoever benefits manages and uses.
The construction of reservoirs by rural collective economic organizations shall be approved by the water administrative departments of local people's governments at or above the county level.
Article 68 The state implements the policy of developmental resettlement for resettlers of large and medium-sized reservoirs, properly arranges the subsequent production and livelihood of resettlers, and protects the lawful rights and interests of resettlers.
Resettlement shall be carried out simultaneously with project construction. The construction unit shall, in light of the environmental capacity of the resettlement area and the principle of sustainable development, formulate resettlement plans in light of local conditions, and after approval in accordance with the law, the relevant local people's governments shall organize their implementation. The necessary resettlement funds shall be included in the project construction investment plan.
Article 69 People's governments at or above the county level shall take effective measures to ensure the safety of water projects, especially reservoir dams, dikes and sluices. The water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, jointly with the relevant departments, strengthen the supervision and management of the safety of water projects.
The water administrative departments and relevant departments of people's governments at or above the county level and the river basin management organs shall, in accordance with their respective functions, register the water projects under their management and establish archives for the water projects.
Article 70 The water administrative department of the State Council and the relevant departments of the State Council shall, in accordance with their respective functions, establish and improve the management system for the safe operation of water projects.
The owners or management units of water projects shall implement the funds for the operation, management and protection of water projects, strengthen the maintenance, conservation and safety monitoring of water projects, carry out safety appraisals of water projects in accordance with the relevant provisions, and ensure the safe operation of water projects.
The water administrative departments and relevant departments of people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen the guidance and supervision of the operation, management and protection of water projects, and for water projects with safety hazards, shall organize the owners or management units of the water projects to take measures such as reinforcement to eliminate dangers, demolition and reconstruction, or decommissioning in accordance with the relevant provisions, so as to promptly eliminate safety hazards.
Article 71 The state implements the protection of water projects. Water projects shall have their project management and protection scope delimited in accordance with the provisions.
For water projects managed by the water administrative department of the State Council or the river basin management organs, the project management and protection scope shall be delimited by the water administrative department of the State Council or the river basin management organs in consultation with the people's governments of the relevant provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government. For other water projects, the project management and protection scope shall be delimited in accordance with the provisions of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and the protection responsibilities shall be clarified.
Within the protection scope of water projects, activities such as blasting, well drilling, quarrying and earth extraction that affect the operation of water projects and endanger the safety of water projects are prohibited.
Article 72 The relevant departments of people's governments at or above the county level, such as those for water administration, natural resources and ecological environment, shall take effective measures to strengthen soil and water conservation and geological disaster prevention and control in reservoir areas, protect and restore the ecological environment of the water-level fluctuation zones, and ensure the safety of reservoirs.
It is prohibited to encroach upon the storage capacity of reservoirs. Where it is truly necessary to construct river-related construction projects in reservoir areas, the projects shall be submitted to the water administrative departments or the river basin management organs for examination and approval in accordance with the provisions of this Law, and necessary remedial measures shall be taken.
Article 73 No unit or individual may encroach upon or destroy project facilities such as reservoir dams, dikes, sluices, pumping stations, bank revetments, and facilities for flood control, drainage of waterlogging, water supply, irrigation, soil and water conservation, hydrological monitoring, and hydrogeological monitoring.
Article 74 Where, in engaging in project construction, agricultural irrigation water sources and irrigation and drainage project facilities are occupied, or there are adverse effects on the original irrigation water use and water supply sources, the construction unit shall take corresponding remedial measures; where losses are caused, compensation shall be given in accordance with the law.
Article 75 The water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level and the river basin management organs shall, on the basis of soliciting and studying the opinions of the relevant departments, coordinate the objectives of flood control, drainage of waterlogging, water supply, drought resistance, irrigation, ecology, navigation, power generation, etc., and establish a comprehensive dispatch system; and organize the implementation of unified dispatch of water projects in accordance with the limits of management authority.
Chapter VII Handling of Water Disputes and Supervision and Inspection
Article 76 Where water disputes occur between different administrative regions, they shall be handled through consultation; where consultation fails, the common next higher level people's government shall make a ruling, and the parties concerned shall comply with and implement it. Before the resolution of a water dispute, without an agreement reached by all parties or the approval of the common next higher level people's government, no party may construct drainage, water-blocking, water withdrawal or water interception (storage) projects within a certain range on both sides of the boundary line between the administrative regions, nor unilaterally change the status quo of the water.
Article 77 Water disputes between units, between individuals, or between units and individuals shall be resolved through consultation; where the parties are unwilling to consult or consultation fails, they may apply to the local people's governments at or above the county level or the departments authorized by them for mediation, or may directly initiate civil litigation with the people's courts. Where mediation by the local people's governments at or above the county level or the departments authorized by them fails, the parties may initiate civil litigation with the people's courts.
Before the resolution of a water dispute, the parties shall not unilaterally change the status quo.
Article 78 When handling water disputes, people's governments at or above the county level or the departments authorized by them have the right to take temporary disposal measures in accordance with the law, and the parties concerned shall comply.
Article 79 The water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall strengthen supervision and inspection, investigate and deal with illegal acts in accordance with the law, and carry out information sharing, joint monitoring and coordinated law enforcement in light of actual needs.
Article 80 When performing the supervision and inspection duties prescribed in this Law, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs have the right to take the following measures:
(1) to consult and copy relevant documents, certificates and materials, and to seal up documents and materials that may be transferred, destroyed, concealed or altered;
(2) to require the inspected units or individuals to make explanations on issues concerning the implementation of this Law;
(3) to enter the production premises of the inspected units or individuals for investigation;
(4) to order the inspected units or individuals to stop acts violating this Law and to perform statutory obligations;
(5) to seal up or seize premises, facilities or property involved in suspected illegal activities.
Where the water administrative departments, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs carry out supervision and inspection in accordance with the law, the inspected units or the relevant personnel shall cooperate and shall not refuse or obstruct.
Article 81 The personnel of the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs who perform the supervision and inspection duties prescribed in this Law (hereinafter referred to as water administration supervision and inspection personnel) shall be devoted to their duties and enforce the law impartially.
When performing supervision and inspection duties, the water administration supervision and inspection personnel shall show their law enforcement certificates to the inspected units or individuals.
Article 82 The water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen the training and supervision of water administration supervision and inspection personnel and improve the capacity and level of law enforcement.
Article 83 Where people's governments at or above the county level or water administrative departments at higher levels discover that the water administrative departments at the corresponding level or at lower levels have committed illegal acts or dereliction of duty in supervision and inspection work, they shall order them to make corrections within a prescribed time limit.
Chapter VIII Legal Liability
Article 84 Where staff members of the relevant departments of the State Council, local people's governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments, and the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs commit dereliction of duty (玩忽职守, wan hu zhi shou - "play, neglect, duty, guard"), abuse of power, or engage in malpractice for personal gain in the work of water resources protection, development, utilization, economization and the prevention and control of water disasters, they shall be given sanctions in accordance with the law.
Article 85 Where water disputes occur between different administrative regions and any of the following acts is committed, the leading personnel and directly responsible personnel bearing responsibility shall be given sanctions in accordance with the law:
(1) refusing to implement the water volume allocation plans and the water volume dispatch plans;
(2) refusing to comply with the unified dispatch of water resources;
(3) refusing to implement the ruling of the common next higher level people's government;
(4) before the resolution of the water dispute, without an agreement reached by all parties or the approval of the common next higher level people's government, unilaterally changing the status quo of the water in violation of the provisions of this Law. However, cases where temporary disposal measures are taken in accordance with the law under emergency circumstances are excepted.
Article 86 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, water is withdrawn without approval, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall, in accordance with their authority, order the cessation of the illegal act, order the retroactive application for a water withdrawal permit within a prescribed time limit, and impose a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan; where the permit is not applied for retroactively within the prescribed time limit or the application is not approved, the water withdrawal facilities shall be ordered to be demolished within a prescribed time limit; where they are not demolished within the prescribed time limit, they shall be forcibly demolished, with the necessary expenses borne by the illegal unit or individual.
Where groundwater is withdrawn without authorization within groundwater prohibited extraction zones or restricted extraction zones, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall, in accordance with their authority, order the cessation of the illegal act, order the demolition of the water withdrawal facilities within a prescribed time limit, and impose a fine of not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan; where they are not demolished within the prescribed time limit, they shall be forcibly demolished, with the necessary expenses borne by the illegal unit or individual.
Where water is withdrawn not in accordance with the conditions prescribed in the approved water withdrawal permit, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall, in accordance with their authority, order the cessation of the illegal act and impose a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan; where the circumstances are serious, the water withdrawal permit shall be revoked.
Article 87 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, the water withdrawal volume reaches or exceeds the water withdrawal scale and online metering facilities are not installed or the online metering facilities do not operate normally, the water administrative departments of local people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall, in accordance with their authority, order the installation, replacement or repair within a prescribed time limit and impose a fine of not more than 20,000 yuan; where the circumstances are serious, a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan shall be imposed. Where the facilities are not installed, replaced or repaired within the prescribed time limit, measures to restrict water withdrawal shall be taken or the water withdrawal permit shall be revoked.
Article 88 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, the water conservation facilities of a construction project are not designed, constructed and put into use simultaneously with the main project, or do not meet the requirements prescribed by the state, and the project is put into use without authorization, the relevant departments and organs of people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with their authority, order corrections within a prescribed time limit and impose a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan; where corrections are not made within the prescribed time limit, a fine of not less than 200,000 yuan but not more than 2,000,000 yuan shall be imposed, and measures to restrict water use shall be taken or the water withdrawal permit shall be revoked.
Where the water conservation facilities of a construction project do not operate normally, corrections shall be ordered within a prescribed time limit and a fine of not more than 20,000 yuan shall be imposed; where corrections are not made within the prescribed time limit, a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan shall be imposed, and measures to restrict water use shall be taken or the water withdrawal permit shall be revoked.
Article 89 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, technologies, processes, equipment and products listed in the directory that are backward and have high water consumption are produced, imported, sold or used in production and operation, punishment shall be imposed in accordance with the provisions of laws such as the Ecological Environment Code of the People's Republic of China.
Article 90 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, the water use level of high water-consuming industrial enterprises exceeds the water use quota and water conservation renovation is not carried out within the prescribed time limit, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall, in accordance with their authority, order corrections and may impose a fine of not more than 100,000 yuan; where corrections are refused, a fine of not less than 100,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan shall be imposed, and where the circumstances are serious, measures to restrict water use shall be taken or the water withdrawal permit shall be revoked.
Article 91 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, the waters and shorelines of rivers and lakes are illegally encroached upon or illegally utilized or occupied, land is reclaimed from lakes, river channels are reclaimed for cultivation, or rivers and lakes are filled in, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall, in accordance with their authority, order the cessation of the illegal act, order the demolition of the illegal buildings and structures within a prescribed time limit, the restoration of the original state, and impose a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan; where the buildings and structures are not demolished, the obstructions are not removed, or the original state is not restored within the prescribed time limit, they shall be forcibly demolished and removed, and the original state shall be restored on their behalf, with the necessary expenses borne by the illegal unit or individual.
Article 92 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, buildings and structures that obstruct flood discharge are constructed within the management scope of rivers and lakes, or activities that affect the stability of river regimes, endanger the safety of river banks and dikes, or otherwise obstruct flood discharge are engaged in, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall, in accordance with their authority, order the cessation of the illegal act, order the demolition of the illegal buildings and structures within a prescribed time limit, the restoration of the original state, and impose a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan; where the buildings and structures are not demolished or the original state is not restored within the prescribed time limit, they shall be forcibly demolished and the original state shall be restored on their behalf, with the necessary expenses borne by the illegal unit or individual.
Where water projects or river-related construction projects are constructed without the consent of the water administrative departments or the river basin management organs, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall, in accordance with their authority, order the cessation of the illegal act, order the retroactive completion of the relevant procedures within a prescribed time limit, and impose a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan; where the procedures are not completed retroactively within the prescribed time limit or the applications are not approved, the illegal water projects and river-related construction projects shall be ordered to be demolished within a prescribed time limit; where they are not demolished within the prescribed time limit, they shall be forcibly demolished, with the necessary expenses borne by the illegal unit or individual.
Where water projects or river-related construction projects are constructed with the consent of the water administrative departments or the river basin management organs but not in accordance with the requirements, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall, in accordance with their authority, order corrections within a prescribed time limit and impose a fine of not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan; where corrections are not made within the prescribed time limit, a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan shall be imposed. Where the construction of water projects or river-related construction projects seriously affects flood discharge, demolition within a prescribed time limit and restoration of the original state shall be ordered, and a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan shall be imposed; where they are not demolished within the prescribed time limit, they shall be forcibly demolished and the original state shall be restored on their behalf, with the necessary expenses borne by the illegal unit or individual.
Article 93 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, activities of extracting sand, gravel and earth are engaged in without obtaining a license, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall, in accordance with their authority, order the cessation of the illegal act, confiscate the illegally extracted sand, gravel and earth and the illegal gains as well as the vessels, equipment and tools used in the illegal activities, and concurrently impose a fine of not less than two times but not more than twenty times the value of the illegally extracted sand, gravel and earth.
Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, sand, gravel and earth are extracted not in accordance with the conditions prescribed in the approved license, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall, in accordance with their authority, order the cessation of the illegal act, confiscate the illegally extracted sand, gravel and earth and the illegal gains, and concurrently impose a fine of not less than one time but not more than two times the value of the illegally extracted sand, gravel and earth; where the circumstances are serious or the extraction is carried out in prohibited extraction areas or during prohibited extraction periods, the illegally extracted sand, gravel and earth and the illegal gains as well as the vessels, equipment and tools used in the illegal activities shall be confiscated, the sand extraction license shall be revoked, and a fine of not less than two times but not more than twenty times the value of the illegally extracted sand, gravel and earth shall be concurrently imposed.
Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, sand, gravel and earth extracted by units or individuals that have not obtained licenses in accordance with the law are transported, purchased or sold, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs, the relevant maritime administration organs and the other relevant departments of people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with their authority, order the cessation of the illegal act, confiscate the illegally transported, purchased or sold sand, gravel and earth and the illegal gains, and impose a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan; where the circumstances are serious, a fine of not less than 200,000 yuan but not more than 2,000,000 yuan shall be concurrently imposed.
Article 94 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, newly built, rebuilt and expanded water projects do not meet the requirements for ecological flow discharge, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall, in accordance with their authority, order corrections within a prescribed time limit, give a warning, and concurrently 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 concurrently imposed.
Article 95 Where any of the following acts is committed, the water administrative departments of people's governments at or above the county level, the river basin management organs and their subordinate management organs shall, in accordance with their authority, order the cessation of the illegal act, order the restoration of the original state within a prescribed time limit, confiscate the illegal gains, and impose a fine of not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan:
(1) engaging in activities such as blasting, well drilling, quarrying and earth extraction within the protection scope of water projects that affect the operation of water projects and endanger the safety of water projects;
(2) encroaching upon or destroying project facilities such as reservoir dams, dikes, sluices, pumping stations, bank revetments, and facilities for flood control, drainage of waterlogging, water supply, irrigation, soil and water conservation, hydrological monitoring, and hydrogeological monitoring.
Article 96 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, the circumstances for lighter, mitigated or exempted punishment prescribed in the Administrative Penalty Law of the People's Republic of China exist, the punishment shall be lighter, mitigated or exempted in accordance with its provisions.
Article 97 Where water is diverted, intercepted (stored) or drained, harming the public interest or the lawful rights and interests of others, civil liability shall be borne in accordance with the law.
Article 98 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, an act constitutes a violation of public security administration, the public security organs shall impose public security administration penalties in accordance with the law; where a crime is constituted, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance with the law.
Chapter IX Supplementary Provisions
Article 99 The meanings of the following terms used in this Law:
(1) "Water projects" means various projects for the protection, development, utilization, control and allocation of water resources on rivers, lakes and underground water sources.
(2) "River-related construction projects" means the construction of wharf projects (including ferry terminals) crossing rivers, passing through rivers, passing through dikes, or adjacent to rivers, bridge projects, road projects, railway projects, pipeline (tunnel) projects, cable projects, shipbuilding (repair, demolition) projects, waterway regulation projects, shoal and bank regulation projects, water intake and drainage facilities, etc.
Article 100 Where international treaties and agreements 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 and agreements shall apply. However, the provisions on which the People's Republic of China has declared reservations are excepted.
Article 101 Where, in engaging in flood control activities, the Flood Control Law of the People's Republic of China and other relevant laws have other provisions, those provisions shall apply.
Article 102 This Law shall come into force on March 22, 2027.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 6)
Return to TopIn the early morning, the whistle of the China-Laos Railway awakens the Mohan port; in the morning mist of the Gaoligong Mountains, plump, bright red coffee cherries weigh down the branches; among the snow-capped peaks of Shangri-La, deep blue photovoltaic panels stretch into a "blue sea."
On the full of vitality (生机盎然, sheng ji ang ran - "life, spring, overflowing") land of Yunnan, China Construction Bank Yunnan Provincial Branch (hereinafter referred to as "CCB Yunnan Branch") integrates the "three capabilities" of enhancing the capacity to serve national development, the capacity to prevent financial risks, and the capacity to participate in international competition into every credit disbursement, every cross-border settlement, and every door-to-door service. Guided by high-quality Party building and leveraging the "five major articles" of finance as a starting point, CCB Yunnan Branch proactively serves and integrates into the construction of Yunnan's "three strategic positioning" as a demonstration zone for ethnic unity and progress, a pacesetter in ecological civilization construction, and a radiation center facing South and Southeast Asia, writing a solid financial answer sheet on the workshop floor, on the border lines, and in the smiling faces of the villagers.
Adhering to Party Building Leadership
Transforming Organizational Momentum into Service Effectiveness
CCB Yunnan Branch strictly implements the "first agenda item" system, ensuring that decisions and deployments are carried out within the bank "without discount and reaching the grassroots." Centering on the theme of "high-quality development in a low-interest-rate environment," it openly seeks advice, turning the "golden ideas" of the grassroots into "practical measures" for development, promoting the synchronized resonance of Party building work and business development.
Party governance and self-supervision continue to be strictly enforced. CCB Yunnan Branch firmly tightens and consolidates its primary responsibility, deepens the "five-link working method," achieves full coverage of "one branch, one Party branch," and lists the "circle-chain-group" service model as a key project to be promoted at a high level; it carries strict requirements throughout the entire process of Party governance and self-supervision, nurturing the spirit of entrepreneurship with an upright and wholesome atmosphere (清风正气, qing feng zheng qi - "clear, breeze, upright, spirit").
The rise or fall of an undertaking hinges on people. CCB Yunnan Branch has established a talent pool of 329 outstanding young and middle-aged cadres, continuously advancing the construction of a five-level talent echelon to form a talent pipeline covering all levels; for two consecutive years it has carried out special actions to reduce burdens and empower the grassroots, with a cumulative total of 136 projects initiated, pushing resources and strength toward the front line so that frontline employees can travel light and devote themselves wholeheartedly to their work.
Strengthening the "Three Capabilities"
Letting Funds Follow Industry
Enhancing the capacity to serve national development and increasing financial supply in key areas. Since the start of the 14th Five-Year Plan, CCB Yunnan Branch has cumulatively provided 1.67 trillion yuan in comprehensive financing support for Yunnan's economic development. Focusing sustained efforts on transportation, energy, water conservancy, new infrastructure, and other areas, it has prioritized support for the construction of the "six networks" and the development of industrial chains such as green aluminum, silicon, and copper. Since the start of the 14th Five-Year Plan, it has cumulatively disbursed 139.193 billion yuan in manufacturing loans, and as of the end of September 2026, the balance of loans to private enterprises reached 77.741 billion yuan. Each sum of funds is transformed into the roar of machinery on the workshop floor and the rotation of tower cranes on construction sites.
At the construction site of the Central Yunnan Water Diversion Project, the "Central Yunnan Water Diversion Project Construction Fund Monitoring System" developed by CCB Yunnan Branch makes the flow of tens of billions of yuan in funds clearly traceable; a manufacturing loan balance of nearly 30 billion yuan injects strong momentum into Yunnan's "industrial backbone"; on the track of cross-border finance, CCB Yunnan Branch advances the integrated operation of local and foreign currencies, with international settlement volume exceeding US$3 billion; serving the development of the China-Laos Railway, CCB Yunnan Branch was among the earliest in the industry to implement "single-document" financing, where blockchain electronic bills of lading allow "a single document" to carry both cargo rights and credit, truly moving the "financial counter" to the front line of construction.
In terms of enhancing the capacity to prevent financial risks and holding the bottom line of prudent operation, CCB Yunnan Branch has improved the full-chain working mechanism of "early identification, early warning, early exposure, and early disposal" of risks, perfected the coordinated control of the "three lines of defense," and safeguarded the smooth operation of the regional economy it serves through its own prudent operations.
Enhancing the capacity to participate in international competition and improving cross-border financial service capabilities. From border residents' mutual trade to cross-border logistics, from port parks to overseas projects, the reach of CCB Yunnan Branch's financial services continues to extend along opening-up corridors, helping the efficient connection of capital flows, information flows, and goods flows on the border lines.
Doing Well the "Five Major Articles" of Finance
Financial Services with Both Strength and Warmth
Financial services should not only have strength, but also warmth. CCB Yunnan Branch does well the "five major articles" of finance, ensuring that the financial needs of different groups receive strong responses.
In technology finance, it looks at patents rather than collateral. Yunnan Wutian Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. was developing a blueberry-specific substrate but lacked funds for equipment upgrades. CCB Yunnan Branch innovatively launched a patent collateral loan service and disbursed a 10 million yuan loan in less than a week, allowing "asset-light" technology innovation enterprises to travel light.
Green finance turns "green" into "gold." Staff of CCB Yunnan Diqing Branch carried oxygen tanks on foot into the core construction area of the Huaneng Nagu Photovoltaic Power Station project at an altitude of 4,800 meters, completing 260 million yuan in green credit in 28 days. Today, 200,000 photovoltaic modules stand facing the sun, delivering 158 million kilowatt-hours of clean electricity annually, enough to meet the electricity needs of 52,000 households.
Inclusive finance empowers thousands of enterprises and households. As of the end of September 2026, CCB Yunnan Branch's inclusive loan balance exceeded 60 billion yuan, serving more than 100,000 customers. In Xinzhai Village, Baoshan City, the "Yunong Quick Loan—Coffee Loan" allows coffee farmers to achieve "a tap on the phone, and the loan arrives," with loan terms following the coffee growth cycle. Today, 95% of the land in this small mountain village is planted with coffee, with annual output value exceeding 120 million yuan, and the "golden beans" from the mountains have brought the villagers a "good life."
Pension finance supports "security for the elderly." As of the end of September 2026, CCB Yunnan Branch has issued more than 3.42 million social security cards and opened more than 980,000 personal pension accounts. The "Silver Harbor Classroom" started from a single branch and has expanded to all 16 prefectures and cities in the province, with volunteers teaching the elderly hand-in-hand how to use mobile phones and identify fraud.
Digital finance reshapes the boundaries of services. CCB Yunnan Branch has partnered with the Yunnan Provincial Federation of Trade Unions to build a "Digital Trade Union" platform; together with the Yunnan Provincial Data Bureau, it has established a credit laboratory so that small, medium, and micro enterprises can "see their credit."
Serving the Construction of the "Three Strategic Positioning"
Writing the Financial Article on the Land of Yunnan
From serving the construction of the demonstration zone for ethnic unity and progress, to polishing the credentials of the pacesetter in ecological civilization construction, to assisting the construction of the radiation center facing South and Southeast Asia, the financial pulse of CCB Yunnan Branch has always resonated in sync with Yunnan's development.
In counties and villages, CCB Yunnan Branch has cumulatively disbursed 37.9 billion yuan in agriculture-related loans to 66,000 agricultural enterprises and farmers; amid the green mountains and clear waters, more than 120 billion yuan in green credit protects the clear waves of the Lancang River and the green mountains of northwestern Yunnan; at the forefront of opening up, a RMB clearing network covering neighboring countries serves the construction of the China-Laos Railway, the expansion and renovation of Kunming Changshui International Airport, and numerous Belt and Road Initiative projects.
This year marks the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan. Standing at a new starting point, CCB Yunnan Branch will continue to strengthen the "three capabilities," do well the "five major articles" of finance, so that every cross-border train is full of confidence, every coffee bean carries hope, and every entrepreneur and every border-area resident can hear the gurgling flow of financial water on the red soil plateau.
Data source: China Construction Bank Yunnan Provincial Branch
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On October 27, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who was in China on a state visit, visited Volkswagen Group's research and development facility in Hefei, Anhui Province — the largest R&D center Volkswagen operates outside Germany. President Steinmeier also personally test-drove a smart electric vehicle developed by Volkswagen in China.
Over the years, German automakers represented by Volkswagen Group have grown and developed in China, and have witnessed the entire process of the Chinese auto industry's opening up, independent development, and transformation and upgrading.
Reform and opening up lifted the curtain on the opening up of China's auto industry. In the 1980s, domestic passenger vehicle supply was short, the industrial base was weak, and there was an urgent need to introduce mature manufacturing technology, quality management systems, and modern production organization models. At that time, the German auto industry enjoyed a global reputation for precision manufacturing, industrial standards, and supply chain systems, and German automakers also hoped to further expand into international markets.
In 1984, SAIC Volkswagen signed its contract and laid its foundation stone, and was formally established in 1985, becoming a landmark joint venture project in China's auto industry. This cooperation was not merely simple vehicle assembly, but systematically introduced the foreign partner's standardized process flows and quality control systems, driving a group of domestic local component suppliers to get started and grow, and cultivating the first generation of modern auto industry workers, engineers, and management talent. In 1991, FAW-Volkswagen was formally established, further deepening Volkswagen Group's layout in China and accelerating the formation of auto industry clusters in Northeast China and the Yangtze River Delta.
For a considerable period, Volkswagen Group's cooperation model in China was mainly "introducing technology, localized production." The joint venture platform built a channel for technology learning, and the Chinese side absorbed and digested manufacturing processes, supply chain management, and vehicle development concepts through cooperation. Many local component companies, by virtue of the opportunity to supply Volkswagen, continuously improved their process levels and gradually grew into suppliers serving the entire industry, accumulating a supply chain foundation for the subsequent rise of independent brands. Along with the rapid development of China's auto market, Volkswagen Group's cooperation in China has continuously reached new heights. In 2017, Volkswagen's annual sales in China exceeded 4 million vehicles for the first time. The cooperation between the two sides has also gradually extended from early technology introduction and vehicle manufacturing to product development, brand building, and other fields.
As the auto industry enters a new stage of transformation toward electrification and intelligentization, Volkswagen Group's cooperation with the domestic auto industry has been iteratively upgraded, moving from traditional manufacturing cooperation toward high-end innovation collaboration.
In October 2022, Volkswagen established a joint venture with Horizon Robotics, a Chinese intelligent driving technology company, to actively develop intelligent driving solutions; in July 2023, Volkswagen invested in XPeng Motors, and the two sides established a strategic technology partnership to develop Volkswagen-brand electric models specifically for the Chinese market; in November 2025, Volkswagen's first full-process R&D and testing center outside Germany was completed in Anhui, helping shorten the vehicle development cycle by 30 percent; in October 2026, Volkswagen obtained an L3-level autonomous driving road testing license in Hefei and launched real-road testing and data collection.
In recent years, unilateralism and trade protectionism have been on the rise globally, the international economic and trade environment has undergone profound changes, the competitive landscape of the global auto industry has been adjusting more rapidly, and industrial chain and supply chain cooperation faces new opportunities and challenges. Against this backdrop, Volkswagen Group has continued to deepen its investment and technological cooperation in China, demonstrating through concrete actions that the Sino-German auto industry cooperation is not a phased collaboration but a long-term win-win.
In 2024, Volkswagen and SAIC Group extended their joint venture cooperation agreement to 2040, fully reflecting both sides' confidence in long-term cooperation. At the same time, China's independent brands are developing faster, and competition in the new energy vehicle market is becoming increasingly full, which also drives Chinese and German automakers to continuously strengthen technological innovation and product upgrading.
The development of Jetta in the Chinese market is a vivid case in point. In October this year, the first all-electric sedan under FAW-Volkswagen's Jetta brand, the M6, was unveiled in the Chinese market, with the top configuration priced at under 100,000 yuan while being equipped with urban NOA (navigation-assisted driving) advanced intelligent driving functions. Previously, FAW and Volkswagen Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Wolfsburg, Germany, confirming that starting in 2026 they will jointly launch 11 models customized for the Chinese market, covering multiple technology routes including pure electric, plug-in hybrid, and extended-range, and Jetta's electrification transformation is one part of this.
From the signing and foundation-laying of SAIC Volkswagen in 1984 to Volkswagen obtaining the L3-level autonomous driving road testing license in Hefei in 2026, over more than 40 years, Sino-German auto industry cooperation has completed the leap from "technology input" to "joint innovation." The story of Volkswagen Group's development in China fully demonstrates that today's China has become a source of global innovation and a co-creation site of value. Multinational automakers have, without prior agreement (不约而同, bu yue er tong - "not, agree, and, same"), repositioned China from a "sales destination" to an "R&D source" and a "global export hub" — this is a vote of confidence cast with real money, and it is also a clear answer given by industrial logic.
On October 28, at its first Technology Day event, Volkswagen Group (China) unveiled "VEGA," an integrated technology matrix independently developed in China and designed for continuous iteration in the future, and announced that Volkswagen will further expand the scale effect of its self-developed technology in China, with plans to first introduce it to the South American market. Amid the trends of electrification and intelligentization in the auto industry, China will continue to expand high-level opening up in the automotive sector, support multinational automakers' development in China, and promote the building of a more open, inclusive, and win-win new ecosystem for the global auto industry. The story between multinational automakers and China is turning a new page.
(The author is deputy chief engineer of the China Automotive Strategy and Policy Research Center; compiled and edited by People's Daily reporter Ge Mengchao)
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Right now is the season when deep-sea cage-cultured golden pomfret are being harvested and put on the market in Hainan. In the sea area off Touzui Village, Xinying Town, Lingao County, Hainan Province, rows of deep-sea cages line the sea surface, and among them are the cages of fish farmer Xu Dianxiu.
These cages were once nearly destroyed by a super typhoon. Two years ago, when the typhoon passed through, 25 of Xu Dianxiu's 30 cages were damaged, with fry lost and feed supply cut off, resulting in losses of more than 1.2 million yuan. "At the time I felt the sky was falling." What pulled him back to this stretch of sea was a combined loan of 1.5 million yuan that arrived in his account just in time. With no collateral and no guarantor, what the bank recognized was his years of credit history and a rebuilding plan. Today, his aquaculture base has long since recovered to its pre-disaster level.
Lingao is a major fishery county in the northwest of Hainan Island. With 116 kilometers of coastline, 7 fishing ports, more than 5,400 fishing vessels, and a population of about 100,000 people connected to the sea, its total fishery output value has ranked first in the province for 27 consecutive years. Fishermen have farmed the sea for generations, hoping to "build big boats, venture into the deep sea, and catch big fish." But business information was scattered across the sea, traditional collateral was scarce, and financial services at one point could not keep up.
How does financial "living water" support small fishing boats? The Lingao Sub-branch of Hainan Rural Commercial Bank (hereinafter referred to as the "Lingao Sub-branch") has set up fishery-specialized business outlets in key fishery towns such as Xinying, organized dedicated teams, and delivered services to fishing ports and the bows of boats, earning it the affectionate nickname "boat-bow bank" from local fishermen.
How many boats a family has, how many years they have been to sea — fishermen now have credit records that banks can understand
On the third day after the typhoon, Dai Yinghua, a client manager at the Lingao Sub-branch, took a small boat to Xu Dianxiu's cages and counted the damage on the spot. A plan was quickly finalized: a 1 million yuan "disaster relief support loan" earmarked for cage repair and restocking of fry, and a 500,000 yuan "business e-loan" for buying feed. After the loans were disbursed, the 25 cages were gradually repaired, a new batch of fry was put in, and the feed supply quickly resumed.
Such speed would have been unimaginable in Lingao before. The credit environment in fishing villages was weak, fishermen had no collateral that banks recognized, guarantee institutions were unwilling to get involved because they could not see through the risks, and financing needs hit walls at every turn.
To change this situation, the leadership team of the Lingao Sub-branch led staff to the front line to survey the situation. Across 9 fishing villages and more than 5,000 fishing households in the two key fishery towns of Xinying and Tiaolou, they went village by village and household by household. After half a year of legwork, they identified the crux of the problem: fishermen actually do have credit — how many years they have fished, whether they owe money, and how much their boats are worth are all known to people in the village — but this information had never been recorded in the bank's system.
How to address a problem with the right remedy (对症下药, dui zheng xia yao - "correct, target, descend, medicine")? The key prescription lay with the local Baocai Fishery Cooperative Association. The association is rooted in the fishing villages, "familiar with the people, familiar with the boats, familiar with the sea." Who has how many boats, how many years they have been to sea, and how much a season's catch amounts to — it keeps a ledger of all of it. The Lingao Sub-branch took over these "soft information" inputs, and through association recommendation and sub-branch review, built a "whitelist" of fishermen's credit.
With credit records that banks could understand, whole-village credit extension reached out to the sea. Starting in 2024, the Lingao Sub-branch created whole-village credit extension demonstration villages in key fishing villages such as Baocai Village in Tiaolou Town and Longkun Village in Xinying Town. Once fishermen were rated as creditworthy households, they could apply for loans by scanning a QR code without having to go to a bank counter, and "personal reputation" was genuinely turned into a financing pass for fishermen.
What kept this system standing at the docks was also a special team. The Lingao Sub-branch had just one criterion for selecting client managers: "Sun-tanned dark, able to board a boat." From Xinying to Tiaolou, from Touzui Village to Huanglong Port, a handful of people walked every fishing port and village lane, moving their office to the docks and beside the shipyards. Over time, they developed the knack of "knowing a boat's value at a glance and a person's trade at a glance." What year a boat was built, what configuration it has, how much it is worth — a quick walk around gives them a good sense.
With credit taking root, loan scale rose accordingly. The fishery loan balance of the Lingao Sub-branch has grown more than 13-fold over the past decade, with nearly 1.4 billion yuan disbursed cumulatively in the past three years, benefiting more than 6,000 fishing households. Even during the fishing moratorium season, about 200 loans are still disbursed each month. For boat repairs, net mending, and fuel stocking, funding is assured year-round.
Replacing old boats with new ones, guarantees solve the collateral problem
The fishing boat is the most valuable asset a fisherman owns. Last December, the Hainan Free Trade Port officially launched island-wide closed customs operation. On the eve of the closure, localities accelerated efforts to guide fishermen to scrap old boats and build compliant large steel-hulled vessels.
At the time, Lingao had 2,803 registered fishing boats with complete "three certificates," accounting for 51.56 percent of the county's total fishing fleet, with another 2,600-plus boats in a transitional period. Fishermen wanted to upgrade, but a new boat costs upward of a million yuan, and their own funds were far from sufficient. This left everyone in a bind.
Where was the difficulty? The old boat was about to be scrapped and was no longer worth anything; the new boat had not yet been launched, so title certificates could not be obtained. The bank was caught in a dilemma: it could not take the old boat as collateral, and it could not take the new boat either. Fishermen were in a dilemma (进退两难, jin tui liang nan - "advance, retreat, two, difficult"): financing was stuck in the middle, with neither end within reach.
Wang Xiaoyu, a boat owner at Wulian Port in Tiaolou Town, knows this well. In September 2023, he took out a loan from the Lingao Sub-branch for the first time to replace his fishing boat. Unexpectedly, in December 2024, his boat was rammed and sunk at sea by a foreign vessel. Accident determination, insurance claims, and loss of income arrived in rapid succession (接踵而至, jie feng er zhi - "follow, heels, and, arrive").
"The first cooperation built trust, and when the accident happened, the customer came back to us again," recalled Zhong Xiaoming, a client manager at the Lingao Tiaolou Sub-branch. But trust was trust — with the boat gone, the normal process could not be followed.
To resolve the difficulties, the Lingao Sub-branch introduced a "shipyard phased guarantee + new boat mortgage" arrangement. While the new boat was under construction at the shipyard, the shipyard provided a transitional guarantee; once the boat was launched for sea trials and the fishery administration issued certificates, the new boat was used as collateral to replace the earlier guarantee. The "guarantee vacuum" between scrapping the old boat and building the new one was thus filled. The application was accepted last May, a 1.7 million yuan personal business loan was disbursed that same month, and the new boat was subsequently launched.
Why was the shipyard willing to provide the guarantee? The logic is simple: when a fisherman places an order to build a boat, the shipyard gets the order and the deposit, and the guarantee is merely one additional procedural step within its own line of business.
As the volume of scrapping-and-replacement business grew, relying on shipyard guarantees alone could no longer cover the amounts, so the Lingao Sub-branch brought in a guarantee company, with the bank and the guarantee company sharing the risk. Loans were also disbursed in installments according to the boatbuilding progress: one disbursement when the keel was laid, one when the engine was installed, and one more at launch for sea trials. Since the beginning of 2025, the Lingao Sub-branch has disbursed more than 126 million yuan in fishing boat scrapping-and-replacement loans, supporting 79 fishing boats in completing upgrades.
A tailor-made online credit loan for fishermen, with funds arriving in one day after scanning a QR code with a phone
In Danzhou City, adjacent to Lingao County, at Yangpu Port dock, boat owner Zhang Li'an has a deep appreciation for the word "fast."
Before the fishing season opened this year, her 34-meter steel-hulled fishing boat needed repairs, but there was no money for maintenance. Without sufficient collateral, she was politely turned away by several banks. Zhang Li'an was frantic with worry. Later she heard that Hainan Rural Commercial Bank had a "fishing e-loan," so she scanned the QR code and gave it a try. A 400,000 yuan credit loan arrived in her account in one day. "Thanks to the timely disbursement, the boat made it in time for the fishing season," Zhang Li'an said.
The "fishing e-loan" is an online credit loan designed by Hainan Rural Commercial Bank specifically for fishermen, with a risk-control model built on fishing industry data, income, and asset conditions. From application to disbursement, it can be completed in as little as 7 hours. Whether at the fishing port, at home, or at sea, fishermen can complete the process by scanning a QR code with their phones.
While online processing is fast, offline services have not stopped. During the fishing moratorium season, when boats return to port in groups for repairs and resupply, client managers go to dock service stations and visit boat by boat. From "iron feet" covering all 9 fishing villages to one-day loan disbursement after scanning a QR code with a phone, loans follow the fishing boats, and the service radius keeps stretching longer.
Across the province, Hainan Rural Commercial Bank has also established ocean-focused sub-branches in coastal cities and counties such as Sanya, and launched distinctive products including the "fishery boatbuilding assistance loan," the "recreational fishery loan," and the "live-animal collateral loan." As of the end of July this year, the bank's fishery loan balance across all branches reached 5.544 billion yuan.
In Lingao, as of the end of June this year, the fishery loan balance of the Lingao Sub-branch exceeded 995 million yuan, ranking first among all financial institutions in the county. Wang Jiawu, Party Committee Secretary and President of the Lingao Sub-branch, said: "Lingao is a major fishery county, and fishermen have farmed the sea and herded fish for generations. Our roots are in the local soil. Wherever fishermen are, financial services follow. Ensuring that every honest and creditworthy fisherman can get a loan and get things done — this is the most tangible way we practice 'supporting agriculture and supporting small businesses.'"
■ Reporter's Notes
Crossing the "Last Nautical Mile"
There is no shortage of fishery news in Lingao, but when covering financial topics, the two words I heard most often were "boarding the boat" and "credit." One detail in particular left a deep impression on me: the sub-branch's criterion for selecting client managers is "sun-tanned dark and able to board a boat."
Fishing boats run on the sea, and catches rise and fall with the seasons, so a business's condition is hard to grasp from a single spreadsheet. When banks cannot get a clear picture of a fisherman's true situation, they hesitate to lend; when fishermen cannot understand the products and processes, they do not know how to apply. This information gap cannot be closed by sitting in a business hall waiting for answers.
Client managers have to board boats to inspect their condition, ask about operations at the docks, and then go into the fishing villages to verify reputations — only then do scattered pieces of information gradually come together into a complete picture. A boat's age, configuration, and value, years in the trade, catch volumes, and repayment records all have to be ascertained bit by bit. The real situation is on the deck, and it is also in the fishing villages.
Making house calls is about attitude, but it is even more a test of capability. Only by being familiar with the rhythm of industry operations can one put to use the "soft information" held by fishery associations, find credit-enhancement solutions during the gap period when the old boat has been dismantled and the new one is not yet built, and quickly judge whether an operator has the capacity to rebuild after a wind disaster. Inclusive finance does not mean relaxing risk control. The non-performing loan ratio of 1.78 percent shows that this service model still has to stand up to the test of commercial sustainability.
"Boarding the boat" carries the warmth of service, but it also embodies risk-control methods. When to repair the boat, when to stock up on fuel, how much the boat is worth, and what affects income — the answers are hidden in the concrete details of production. The better client managers understand fisheries, the closer product design and risk judgment can come to real needs.
In recent years, digital technology has opened new space for inclusive finance, and applying for loans by scanning a QR code is becoming the norm. But Lingao's experience tells us that technology shortens physical distance but cannot replace the trust built face to face. For a credit system to take root, it ultimately depends on people walking it into place step by step. Specialized financial services take many forms, but their core is the same — "there are always more solutions than difficulties." Someone has to be willing to cross the "last nautical mile" so that all those who are honest and creditworthy can get loans and get things done.
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The policy of providing work as relief has existed in China since ancient times. Unlike gratuitous relief, the government achieved the goal of relieving distress and hardship by increasing the construction of public works and employing the people to carry out repairs and construction. The earliest records of providing work as relief appear in the Yanzi Chunqiu and the Guanzi, from which it is known that its ideas and policies sprouted during the pre-Qin period. From the Qin and Han dynasties to the Tang dynasty, providing work as relief is rarely seen in historical sources. During the Northern Song dynasty, related accounts and discussions increased markedly, and by the Qing dynasty, its policies and practices had been continuously refined and developed to a peak.
In traditional agrarian society, the frequent occurrence of agricultural disasters led to cycles of bumper and poor harvests in agricultural production, and economic development correspondingly formed cyclical fluctuations. Therefore, the economic principle of providing work as relief can be explained as the government implementing countercyclical adjustment by expanding expenditure. Specifically, it has three notable characteristics. First, "governing before disorder arises." Providing work as relief recruits a large number of laborers, which can promptly gather and settle disaster-affected people, avoiding the evolution of a localized disaster into a systemic social risk transmitted to all regions through unemployment and dispersal. Second, addressing both symptoms and root causes (标本兼施, biao ben jian shi - "mark, root, both, apply"). In the short term, providing work as relief can play the role of mitigating the impact of disasters and stabilizing society. Looking to the long term, the public works built through providing work as relief, such as water conservancy facilities, are conducive to consolidating the foundation of agricultural production, effectively preventing disasters, and maintaining long-term peace and stability (长治久安, chang zhi jiu an - "long, govern; long, peace"), just as the Qing dynasty scholar Yang Jingren said in the Chou Ji Bian: "In dredging rivers and building dikes and other tasks, receiving their wages saves against the present famine; relying on their labor saves against future floods and droughts." Third, teaching someone how to fish rather than just giving them fish (授人以渔, shou ren yi yu - "give, person, use, fish"). Disaster-affected people recruited through providing work as relief must put in paid labor while receiving relief, which both improves the efficiency of the use of financial expenditures and enables the employed, through this special employment opportunity, to learn and master skills they may not previously have had access to, thereby enhancing their ability to be self-reliant and to develop over the long term.
Providing work as relief both preserves and protects labor power and restores and develops productive forces, so government financial resources suffer no wasteful expenditure — it can be said to be gaining multiple benefits from a single action (一举多得, yi ju duo de - "one, action, many, obtain"). In numerous works of the Ming and Qing dynasties, it is a good policy and fine method frequently discussed. Providing work as relief matured during the mid-Qing dynasty, the main marker being that related measures achieved institutionalization and standardization. The Qing Shilu records that, in order to take precautions before problems arise (未雨绸缪, wei yu chou mou - "not, rain, prepare, plan"), the state required all localities to plan engineering projects in advance and register them in ledgers for reporting, "so that in the future, should there be times of uneven floods and droughts, when one wishes to provide work as relief, one can consult the registers and handle the matter promptly."
It must be recognized that in history the intensity and effectiveness of implementing providing work as relief were greatly constrained by the will of the state, fiscal capacity, and the administrative efficiency of the bureaucratic system, and these are often closely connected with the rise and fall, order and chaos, of dynasties. As a supplement, privately funded self-rescue through providing work as relief already appeared in the Northern Song dynasty, and it became a force in policy practice that could not be ignored.
Viewed with a modern eye, the most valuable significance of providing work as relief is: economic and social development should always "keep its eye on people" and fully "invest in people"; as long as workers are ensured sustainable development through skills and employment, the economy and society also obtain the fundamental driving force and guarantee of stability and development. Therefore, the policy implications of providing work as relief, beyond disaster relief in the traditional sense, also include: in the dynamic development process of the economy and society, especially during periods of transformation, upgrading, and adjustment, the government can integrate social and market forces and, relying on various employment and training programs centered on providing (quasi-)public goods, build a "human resources reserve pool" to gather and nurture the labor force awaiting employment, making the reserve pool a "training ground" and "development zone" for labor, and through the inflow and outflow mechanisms of the reserve pool, provide competitive workers for high-quality development of the economy and society.
Extending from this, for different groups, as long as the design is reasonable, the human resources reserve pool can form a virtuous cycle of "able to enter, able to stay, able to do well, able to flow, able to develop," continuously nurturing fresh blood for the economy and society and continuously supplying new forces to all walks of life. Building a human resources reserve pool is a creative transformation of the ideas and policies of providing work as relief, and an important policy option for the employment-first strategy of the new era, for driving high-quality development by enhancing human capital, and for implementing the principle of "investing in people."
(The author is a professor at the International Business School of Shaanxi Normal University; compiled by Zhou Bin, a reporter for National Humanities History)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张天培
Sakong Village, Pumajiangtang Township, Langkazi County, Shannan City, Tibet, at an altitude of 5,373 meters, is known as the "forbidden zone of life."
Here, the oxygen content is less than 40 percent of that at sea level, and for 10 months of the year the mountains are sealed off by heavy snow. The land is bare and barren — let alone towering trees, even the most tenacious wild grass struggles to grow.
In such a bitterly cold and desolate land, three policewomen from the Pumajiangtang Border Police Station — Li Hongyan, Wu Hui, and Li Tianjiao — have painted "summer" all over the mottled earthen walls of the village, guarding the highland children as they grow toward the sun.
A "warm sun" in the depths of winter
A "summer wall" preserves color and beauty for the children
Looking south into the distance, the frozen lake surface is as clear and transparent as crystal, and the snow-capped peaks stand majestic and towering. A postal truck makes its way slowly through the mountains, setting out from Shannan City and, after nearly five hours of twists and turns, finally arriving in Pumajiangtang Township.
"The new paints I ordered have finally arrived!" Li Hongyan's face beamed with joy as she dashed out of the police station toward the postal truck at the gate: "I heard from our 'old squad leader' that in the past, to pick up parcels, the station had to send a vehicle to the county seat to bring them back, at most twice a month. Now packages arrive in seven days."
With the postal truck running, logistics have become more and more convenient, but the children of Pumajiangtang still share a common dream in their hearts: to see what summer looks like. This has also become a deep concern for Li Hongyan.
"Pumajiangtang is located on the northern slopes of the Himalayas, in an extremely high-altitude and cold environment. The children here live with bitter cold, wind, and snow all year round and have never seen the midsummer scene of flourishing with flowers and beautiful scenery (繁花似锦, fan hua si jin - "abundant flowers, like brocade") and lush green grass and trees. They can only learn what summer looks like from the words and pictures in their textbooks." Li Hongyan said with emotion.
After one campus teaching session, a child's innocent question deeply moved her: "Police sister, what is summer really like? Is it full of green grass and flowers everywhere, warm and bright?" That simple sentence made Li Hongyan's nose tingle with sadness and touched her deeply. She knew that the extreme high-altitude cold had trapped the children's horizons, but it could not trap their boundless longing for a beautiful world.
So, in order to let the highland children who had never seen midsummer feel the beauty of summer and see the splendor of the outside world, Li Hongyan purchased a full set of painting pigments, brushes, and canvases, and, together with Wu Hui and Li Tianjiao, used their rest time outside of duty to paint the beautiful midsummer scenery onto the village walls.
On countless quiet afternoons, the three policewomen bent over the walls, devoting themselves to painting, carefully sketching stroke by stroke on the village's earthen walls — blue skies and white clouds, green grass and trees, colorful blossoms, high-flying wild geese... Their fingertips were stained with pigment, and their clothes were dyed with color as well. After more than a week of effort, the originally monotonous and barren earthen walls gradually transformed into a "summer scroll painting" full of vitality, with green everywhere and flowers in full bloom, becoming a striking sight in Sakong Village.
Gazing at the vividly lifelike (栩栩如生, xu xu ru sheng - "lifelike, as if alive") midsummer scene, the children were cheering and jumping with joy (欢呼雀跃, huan hu que yue - "cheer and leap"), stopping to stare, reaching out to touch the "sunshine and blossoms" on the wall, their eyes full of longing and light.
"So this is what summer looks like." Yangzom has lived in Sakong Village since she was little and has never left this place, nor has she ever seen what summer looks like. Looking at the wall full of unfamiliar yet warm scenes, she dreams of going out to see the world when she grows up.
A "summer wall" shuts out the desolation and cold of the snow country, preserving the splendor and beauty of midsummer for the children, and planting in their hearts the hope of loving life and longing for beauty. This hand-painted "midsummer" is the warmest gift that the three policewomen, who came from bustling cities to guard the frontier, have given to the highland children, and it is also a touching romance of the snowy frontier.
The "Tibetan language class" in the tutoring class
The language barrier gradually melts away, and the hearts of the police officers and the children draw closer and closer
Li Hongyan, Wu Hui, and Li Tianjiao grew up in cities. After graduation, holding the conviction of "going to the most arduous places, going to the places where the motherland needs us most," they voluntarily applied to come to the remote Pumajiangtang.
Here, they shed the shyness and delicacy of young girls, overcame high-altitude cold and oxygen deficiency, withstood violent wind and snowstorms, patrolled the border, and went from door to door in the villages, using sincerity and genuine feeling to narrow the distance between police and people and to safeguard the peace of the masses. But in their hearts, there has always been a group of people they cannot stop worrying about — the children of Pumajiangtang.
Because the area is remote and conditions are limited, the children of Pumajiangtang lack suitable places to study during the winter vacation. The police station therefore joined forces with the Sakong Village committee to use the centralized oxygen-supply room in the jurisdiction to open an "oxygenated tutoring class." The three policewomen naturally took on the responsibility of helping with studies and protecting the children.
Every winter vacation, when the bitter highland wind blows and school is closed, Li Tianjiao, Wu Hui, and Li Hongyan give up their rest time to stand duty at the tutoring class, becoming the highland children's dedicated after-school teachers. Li Tianjiao patiently explains difficult points in their coursework and corrects their pronunciation and writing of Chinese characters; Wu Hui teaches the children safety knowledge, knowledge of the rule of law, and stories of border defense, teaching the children to protect themselves and to revere the law; Li Hongyan puts her artistic expertise to use, leading the children in drawing, handicraft creation, and depicting the national flag, guiding the children to understand the world and love life.
In the classroom, they are rigorous and meticulous teachers, teaching students according to their individual needs (因材施教, yin cai shi jiao - "according to ability, teach"), patiently answering questions, and teaching with dedication to fill the gaps in the children's studies; outside of class, they are gentle and kind older sisters, chatting and playing with the children, listening to their hearts, soothing their emotions, and bringing them stationery, books, and snacks, guarding their pure childlike hearts.
During one teaching interaction, Pema Yudron, a little Tibetan girl in the fourth grade of primary school, handed Li Tianjiao a note written in Tibetan and said softly, "This is your Tibetan name. I want to remember you forever." This small gesture made Li Tianjiao's eyes brim with tears (热泪盈眶, re lei ying kuang - "eyes filled with hot tears") in an instant.
After that, the naive and carefree (天真烂漫, tianzhen lanman - "innocent and romantic") Pema Yudron became Li Tianjiao's Tibetan teacher, carefully demonstrating the standard pronunciation in her clear, childish voice. Li Tianjiao listened with great care, following along and repeating again and again.
"Gongkang Sang" (Tibetan for "hello"), "Achela Rongmajiyin" (Tibetan for "let me help you") — Li Tianjiao set herself a small goal: "First, be able to communicate simply and narrow the distance with the children."
Inspired by Li Tianjiao, Wu Hui and Li Hongyan also began studying Tibetan. "This not only brings us closer to the children, but the masses will also trust us more," Li Hongyan said.
In Pumajiangtang, many elderly Tibetan herders speak only Tibetan, and visits and communication all depend on village cadres for translation. "If we can't communicate, handling calls and responding to incidents is easily delayed, and in mediating disputes the masses 'can't understand' and the police 'can't explain' — we can only worry helplessly." Wu Hui spoke from deep experience.
When on duty, they go to the "oxygenated tutoring class" to tutor the children in Chinese and mathematics. The children also gather around them, teaching them simple Tibetan.
What is learned is language, what is blended is culture, what is drawn close is affection. Through continuous accumulation, now when the policewomen go from door to door in the villages, they use a "Gongkang Sang" to knock on the doors of the people's homes and step into the children's world.
The language barrier gradually melts away, and the hearts of the police officers and the children draw closer and closer.
The policewomen work hard to protect the children here, and the children are also warming them in their own way.
The warmth of the police badge in their time together
Being trusted by the children is a happiness, and even more so a weighty responsibility
On "June 1" Children's Day two years ago, police officers from the station were invited to participate in a kindergarten activity. Wu Hui crouched down and, in her not-yet-fluent Tibetan, praised Drolkar, whose cheeks were rosy red, saying "Pumo, Injela" (Tibetan for "little girl, very pretty"). Seeing the girl remain silent, she felt a bit embarrassed and asked the people around her whether her pronunciation was too clumsy. At that moment, the girl shyly replied in very standard Mandarin: "I know what you mean." Everyone burst into laughter. Wu Hui tentatively asked whether they could take a photo together. Drolkar readily agreed, and the two took their first photo together.
Fate continued once again. The next year at the kindergarten event, Drolkar recognized Wu Hui at a glance, and the two took a second photo together.
At the 2026 village Spring Festival Gala, amid the noisy crowd, Drolkar ran straight toward Wu Hui and tightly grasped her hand: "I dreamed of you last night. I'm so happy to see you today." Drolkar's young face showed joy she could hardly contain.
After only a few meetings, the child had already remembered this police sister in her heart. Drolkar called over her friends and proudly showed them the photos on Wu Hui's phone. This direct and passionate expression struck deep into Wu Hui's heart. She crouched down and took a third photo with the girl and her little friends.
Such warm moments are numerous in Pumajiangtang.
Jumi Chilie, 13 years old this year, has excellent grades and was admitted to a junior high school in Jiangsu. One day, he quietly sidled up to Wu Hui and, pressing close to her ear, said cautiously: "Sister, I'm a little scared. This is the first time I'm leaving the village, going to a place I don't know at all."
Seeing the child's helpless expression, Wu Hui sat down with him, took out her phone, opened the map, and accompanied him as he searched bit by bit for the place he was about to go. "When I went to university back then, I also went to a strange city, and I soon made good friends and saw a bigger world." Wu Hui patiently eased Jumi Chilie's anxiety.
Jumi Chilie's unfamiliarity with and fear of the unknown environment gradually disappeared: "When I come back, I'll tell you what it's like there!"
The warmth of the police badge is hidden in the small details of interaction with the children. One child said with firm eyes: "When I grow up, I also want to be a border defense police officer, to guard my hometown and guard the motherland"; another child quietly placed hand-drawn pictures and small highland stones picked up from the ground as gifts at the gate of the police station.
Here, being trusted by the children is a happiness, and even more so a weighty responsibility.
"We hope that through our protection, the children will have more expectations for the future, and that when the people see the police, they can feel at ease." Wu Hui said.
This is perhaps the reason why the police officers of the Pumajiangtang Border Police Station, including the three policewomen, remain steadfast here, and it is also the reason why batches of new police officers voluntarily apply to come here and then stay.
Pumajiangtang has the harshness of raging wind and snow, the desolation of a forbidden zone of life, and also the sincerity of a youth without regret and the unswerving and steadfast devotion (坚守不渝, jian shou bu yu - "persist unswervingly") of loyalty. On the bitterly cold snowy highland, the three policewomen, carrying gentleness and enthusiasm, have become the "guardians" of the highland children, using paintbrushes to depict midsummer, using knowledge to light up dreams, using companionship to warm childhood, and building a warm world for the children in the distant frontier. "We want to become the light that illuminates the children, planting the seeds of patriotism, courage, resilience, and beauty in their hearts." This is the shared aspiration of the three policewomen.
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Recently, as the "Huwang—2026" special operation continues to advance in depth, the Cybersecurity Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security published three typical cases of failure to fulfill obligations for network and data security protection. The three cases expose a common problem: some units exhibit selective paralysis toward network security, mistakenly believing that risks exist only in primary business and key systems, while neglecting protection for routine business, test servers, visitor registration, and other links, ultimately burying security hazards. This set of cases issues a warning: there are no bystanders in network security protection, and the data security defense line must run through the entire process of digitalized operations.
Looking closely at the three cases published by the public security network security departments, the emergence of hidden dangers did not originate from sophisticated and complex attack methods, but mostly began with laxity in management and a sense of undue optimism or reliance on luck (侥幸心理, jiao xing xin li - "luck, fluke, thought, psychology") in thinking. A medical institution had chaotic internal authority management, with staff casually exporting more than a thousand pieces of internal data and storing them on networked computers lacking protection; an enterprise's self-built visitor registration system stored citizens' personal information, and subjectively determining that it was not a primary business, it deployed no security protection, leaving the data "running naked" for a long time; another enterprise failed to take its test server offline in a timely manner after testing was completed, lacked necessary security protection measures, and the server was hacked and used by criminals to carry out illegal activities. These vulnerabilities could have been promptly sealed through routine management and basic technical protection, but were left unchecked due to the subjective judgment that "nothing will happen," allowing small matters to drag into risk hazards.
In reality, many entities still hold cognitive misconceptions about network security. Some believe that only platforms and internet enterprises are key targets for network security protection, and that medical institutions and ordinary enterprises face little security pressure; some classify business by "importance," thinking that primary business systems matter, while visitor registration and temporary test servers are "marginal work" that does not require security investment. According to the Cybersecurity Law, network operators shall implement institutional, technical, and other protection measures to prevent networks from illegal access and guard against data theft, tampering, and leakage. This is a statutory responsibility, and whether the business falls within key categories is not a precondition for exemption from liability. Personal information, regardless of which business it originates from, once leaked, will directly infringe upon the rights and interests of the masses; servers, whether in formal use or temporary testing, once breached, may be reduced to tools for cybercrime. In security protection, there has never been a "secondary domain."
Since the beginning of this year, public security organs, together with relevant industry departments, have carried out centralized rectification targeting prominent problems such as the inadequate implementation of data protection measures in key areas, conducting more than 9,700 network and data security hazard investigations cumulatively, and investigating and handling a large number of administrative cases of failure to fulfill security protection obligations, releasing a clear governance orientation: the gateway of network security governance is moved forward, extending from focusing on post-hoc crackdowns on cybercrime to further advancing toward supervising the implementation of primary responsibility and proactively investigating risk hazards, adhering to prevention first and source governance. The purpose of administrative law enforcement exposing typical cases is not only to punish the entities involved, but also to explain the law through cases, promoting all industries to learn from one instance to infer others (举一反三, ju yi fan san - "lift one, return three"), and to break the mindset of relying on luck.
There are no small matters in security, and no blind spots in the defense line. Cyberspace governance is a systematic project that requires not only continuous supervision, inspection, exposure, and warning from regulatory departments such as public security network security agencies, but also depends on network operators shouldering their statutory responsibilities, abandoning the mindset of "valuing business over security," and ensuring that wherever business extends, security management covers. Only by guarding every inconspicuous system vulnerability, managing every piece of ordinary data well, and leaving no security dead corner, can we jointly protect important network systems and the personal information security of the people, making cyberspace more secure and stable.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 金 歆
Grandpa Su of Chongqing is over 90 years old this year. He usually has difficulty moving about and requires dedicated care year-round. His wife passed away early back then, and it was Grandpa Su alone who raised his six children. Over the years, Grandpa Su has been living with his eldest son.
But as he has been getting older and older (年事渐高, nian shi jian gao - "year, matter, gradually, high"), his ability to take care of himself in daily life has grown increasingly poor. Grandpa Su often clashed with his son's family over trivial matters, and his son and daughter-in-law found the care increasingly burdensome. So Grandpa Su proposed that he no longer wanted to live with his son and wished to move to a nursing home in the urban area. In the old man's view, this way he would neither burden his eldest son's family nor fail to receive more professional care. He had specifically gone to inquire and learned that the nursing home he had his eye on charged 3,700 yuan per month, which, split evenly among the six children, would come to only a few hundred yuan per person per month.
But no sooner had this idea been voiced than it met with opposition from his children. Some of the children said they were ill and had to spend a large sum of money on medical treatment every month, leaving no extra money to support the old man's stay in a nursing home; some said their families lived in the countryside and made a living by farming, so their incomes were very low to begin with. In short, none of them wanted to pay the nearly 4,000 yuan per month nursing home fee for the old man.
So some of the children said it would be better for the old man to take turns living in the homes of the six children; others suggested simply going to a cheaper nursing home in the town. After several rounds of discussion, the children remained unwilling to agree to Grandpa Su's wish to go to a nursing home.
The two sides grew increasingly at odds. Feeling wronged and helpless, Grandpa Su, in a fit of anger, took his six children to court, demanding that each pay 700 yuan per month in support payments to send him to a nursing home, and also demanding that the children visit him regularly. In court, all six children acknowledged that supporting one's parents is a legal obligation, but they generally believed that supporting him at home was sufficient and that there was no need to pay 700 yuan per month in support payments.
The court held in its adjudication that supporting one's parents is a legal obligation of adult children and may not be refused on any grounds. At the same time, elderly people have the right to independently choose their mode of eldercare. The old man's request to be admitted to an eldercare institution was consistent with his actual circumstances and should be respected.
The Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly clearly stipulates: "For elderly people who are unable to take care of themselves in daily life... care may be entrusted to others or to eldercare institutions, among others, in accordance with the elderly person's wishes."
In the end, taking into account the old man's living needs while fully considering the children's financial capacity and the local standard of living, the court rendered a judgment as it saw fit: each of the six children shall pay 500 yuan per month in support payments, to be used as the fee for the old man's stay in the nursing home. At the same time, the old man's monthly medical expenses shall be borne equally by the six children. Each child is required to visit the old man at home once a month.
The judge explained that this seemingly ordinary family dispute actually clarified many legal boundaries of eldercare. First, regarding the mode of eldercare, the old person's wishes take priority. Many people always feel that having one's children by one's side is what constitutes filial piety, but according to the provisions of the Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly and other laws, whether to go to a nursing home and which nursing home to go to must respect the old person's own choice, and children cannot forcibly make decisions on the old person's behalf. Second, the obligation of support is not merely about giving money; it also requires spiritual comfort. The law clearly stipulates that supporters must fulfill the obligations of economic support, daily-life care, spiritual comfort, and so on, and that family members who live apart from the old person should conscientiously visit or send greetings to the old person. Therefore, the judgment in this case also clarified the children's obligation to visit the old man at home.
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Recently, the news that Jinggangshan City, Ji'an, Jiangxi, was named a "2021–2025 Model County for Peaceful China Construction" filled local residents with pride and a sense of security.
A person in charge of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Jinggangshan Municipal Party Committee said that behind this honor lies Jinggangshan's integration of the red gene into the entire process of peaceful construction, upholding and developing the the Fengqiao model (枫桥经验) of the new era, actively exploring the "Five Joints for Co-Governance" mechanism of joint site building, joint team action, joint grid patrol, joint mediation of disputes, and joint handling of appeals, and jointly building, governing, and sharing a peaceful and harmonious homeland.
In September this year, police officers from the Bixi Police Station of the Jinggangshan Municipal Public Security Bureau came to Jiangbian Village to carry out a "home visits to hear complaints" outreach activity.
"Granny, have you had any difficulties at home recently?" Arriving at the home of Fan, a resident in her 70s, the officers saw the elderly woman looking anxious and feeling very anxious and preoccupied (心事重重, xin shi zhong zhong - "heart, matter, heavy, heavy"), and immediately took the initiative to ask.
It turned out that the elderly woman usually enjoyed watching short videos to learn dance. Previously, while browsing on a certain platform, she accidentally clicked to make a payment, generating two course fees. Because of her advanced age, the elderly woman did not know how to check her bills or understand the source of the deductions, and was very worried.
The officers calmed the elderly woman's emotions while on the spot helping her, step by step, to check her payment bills and verify the specific deduction items. Subsequently, the officers actively contacted the platform's customer service, explained in detail the actual situation of the elderly woman's mistaken operation due to her advanced age, and patiently communicated and coordinated the refund.
With the active push of the police officers, the platform successfully processed the refund, and all the money was returned to the elderly woman's account through the original channel. The elderly woman was deeply moved and repeatedly praised the officers' work style of being considerate, practical, and solving difficulties for the people.
Since the beginning of this year, relying on the "five teams" of political and legal police officers, township political and legal committee members, village (community) cadres, resident cadres, and grid workers, Jinggangshan has innovatively carried out the "home visits to hear complaints" and large-scale visit activity of political and legal cadres, effectively grasping information on disputes, conflicts, and safety hazards, and integrating the multiple forces of political and legal departments and mass prevention and mass governance, with the "red governance work method" as the main approach, creating and launching a series of mediation brands such as "Jing Police Have Mediation," "Jing Law Resolves Disputes," and "Red Jinggangshan."
"I didn't expect coming to the comprehensive governance center to solve a problem to be so effective." A few days ago, Ms. Yu, a Nanchang citizen, made a special trip to the Jinggangshan Comprehensive Governance Center to present a silk banner reading "Fair and impartial (公道正派, gong dao zheng pai - "public, way, upright, faction"), wholehearted mediation" to the mediators.
A few years ago, Ms. Yu's father, Yu, leased storefronts in the Jinggangshan urban area from Li and others. In early May this year, Yu decided to terminate the lease, but the "agreement to refund four months' rent" that had been negotiated with the other party was not implemented for a long time. Feeling completely helpless (万般无奈, wan ban wu nai - "ten thousand, kind, no, endure"), Ms. Yu came to the Jinggangshan Comprehensive Governance Center for help.
After accepting the case, the comprehensive governance center immediately assigned mediators from the "Red Jinggangshan" mediation room, which is permanently stationed at the center, to connect with the multiple parties involved. Through the patient and meticulous communication of the mediators, Li and others quickly agreed to refund the rent to Yu, and the matter was satisfactorily resolved.
In order to solve the governance pain point of the masses having to run around to multiple places to resolve disputes in the past, Jinggangshan has built a three-tier linked mediation system of "municipal comprehensive governance center + township comprehensive governance center + village (community) comprehensive governance office," handling difficult and complex contradictions, general disputes and conflicts, and simple conflicts by classification and level.
During every holiday, many families bring their children to the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Museum, Huangyangjie, and other places to visit revolutionary sites and listen to red stories.
At the entrance of the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Museum, staff from multiple units including the Municipal Party Committee Political and Legal Affairs Commission, the Municipal Court, and the Municipal Procuratorate popularized legal knowledge and safety prevention tips to tourists by setting up booths, displaying panels, distributing brochures, and giving on-site explanations.
A person in charge of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Jinggangshan Municipal Party Committee said that Jinggangshan has transformed red resources into effective grassroots governance, organically combined legal publicity with red tourism, created a number of living "legal classrooms," and fostered a strong atmosphere for peaceful construction.
Return to TopFrom November 6 to 8, the 2026 International Bay Area Economic Forum was held in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. During the forum, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Power Development Cooperation Organization Federation of the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone held its inauguration ceremony. More than 20 power enterprises, including China Southern Power Grid, jointly released the "Proposal for Further Deepening Power Cooperation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area," sending a new signal of deepened energy and power cooperation in the Greater Bay Area empowering the high-quality development of the bay area economy.
The Pearl River flows toward the sea, and the wind shines upon the bay area. In the deep-sea areas of Yangjiang City, the nation's first integrated offshore and onshore offshore wind power flexible DC transmission project — the Guangdong Yangjiang Sanshan Island Offshore Wind Power Flexible DC Transmission Project — is currently conducting joint commissioning and debugging of its offshore converter station. Once completed, this "deep-sea green power expressway" will deliver clean wind power from the vast South China Sea directly across the sea to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Based on the overall development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, China Southern Power Grid Guangdong Power Grid Company (hereinafter referred to as "Guangdong Power Grid") is making every effort to build a "power bay area" characterized by "abundant and high-quality supply, strong resilience, green and low-carbon development, leading technology, smart integration, and open sharing." Focusing on strengthening the power grid foundation, green and smart development, and connectivity among the three regions, it is translating ambitious goals into engineering practice, supporting the construction of a world-class bay area with stable, abundant, green, and smart power.
Building a Strong Power Foundation to Smooth Energy Flow in the Bay Area
Above the South China Sea, the offshore converter station of the Guangdong Yangjiang Sanshan Island Offshore Wind Power Flexible DC Transmission Project has entered the joint commissioning and debugging stage. The offshore converter station, known as the "offshore power heart," collects, steps up, and converts the alternating current generated by dispersed wind turbines into high-voltage direct current, which then travels through a 180-kilometer DC overhead line to reach the Guland Converter Station at ±500 kV in Jiangmen, ultimately feeding into the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area power grid. After the project is put into operation within the year, it will deliver approximately 6 billion kilowatt-hours of clean electricity to the Greater Bay Area annually, meeting the annual electricity demand of 2 million households and transforming the long winds of the South China Sea into lasting green momentum driving the development of the Greater Bay Area.
In the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, the construction of the main grid framework of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is working at high speed or with great urgency (快马加鞭, kuai ma jia bian - "fast horse, add whip"), with a batch of pivotal power grid projects being completed one after another. The Zhaoqing 500 kV Ganxiang Power Transmission and Transformation Project was put into operation at the beginning of the year, becoming the first 500 kV pivotal project of China Southern Power Grid to be commissioned during the 15th Five-Year Plan period; Zhuhai completed its 100th substation, weaving a denser urban power supply network; the Guangzhou 220 kV Tianhe Tangxia Flexible DC Back-to-Back Project is carrying out a task in an intense and urgent manner (紧锣密鼓, jin luo mi gu - "tight gong, dense drum") under construction, with ultra-large-capacity equipment adapted to the development needs of the urban core power grid. At the same time, Guangzhou has become the only megacity selected for the first batch of new power system construction capacity enhancement pilots by the National Energy Administration, bringing significant opportunities for the high-quality development of the Guangzhou power grid.
Guangdong Power Grid continues to optimize the layout of the backbone grid framework of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, coordinates the advancement of key projects, and, based on local resource endowments, systematically promotes the large-scale development of offshore wind power and the orderly deployment of distributed photovoltaics, opening up channels for new energy consumption; it is accelerating inter-provincial energy interconnection, promoting the planning and construction of the Hunan-Guangdong and Hainan-Guangdong interconnection projects, and building an energy dispatch pattern featuring multi-source complementarity and inter-provincial mutual assistance.
Facing development demands such as high-density loads in megacities and the rapid growth of new types of energy use, Guangdong Power Grid continues to enhance the carrying capacity of urban distribution networks, resilience assurance capabilities, and customer power supply quality. It is building a "strong, flexible, abundant, and reliable" urban distribution network, creating a millisecond-level self-healing bay area grid framework in the Pearl River Delta load center, and serving the development of "trillion-GDP cities" such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, and Dongguan. At the same time, focusing on the goal of energy connectivity in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao region, it continues to strengthen power supply guarantees to Hong Kong and Macao, relying on the normalized Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao interconnection coordination mechanism to jointly advance power grid planning, dispatch operation, and risk prevention and control, using energy interconnection to support the coordinated development of the three regions.
Focusing on Green and Smart Transformation to Build a Diversified and Mutually Supporting Ecosystem in the Bay Area
Guided by green and smart transformation, Guangdong Power Grid continues to tap into the value of flexible regulation on the demand side, promoting the transformation of energy consumption from one-way extraction to two-way interaction. The AC V2G (vehicle-to-grid) charging pile project in Dongcheng Garden Residential Community in Guangzhou has completed meter installation and full equipment joint commissioning, marking the official operation of the nation's first residential community AC V2G charging pile. The energy interaction model is undergoing innovation, achieving a shift from "vehicles waiting for electricity to recharge" to "vehicles sending electricity back to the grid," redefining the symbiotic relationship between electric vehicles and the power grid. Using this as a model, Guangdong Power Grid continues to deeply explore demand-side regulation potential, vigorously develop virtual power plants, respond to market demand, actively deploy charging infrastructure, implement vehicle-grid interaction demonstration projects, and gather massive dispersed adjustable resources into a "reservoir" for flexible grid regulation.
Digital capabilities are becoming an important support for the green development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. In October, the Guangdong Province Dual Carbon Service Center was established at Guangdong Power Grid, and the integrated provincial-municipal two-level "dual carbon" service system was completed simultaneously. Relying on the fertile ground of pioneering and conducting pilot programs (先行先试, xian xing xian shi - "first act, first try") in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Guangdong Power Grid fully unleashes the value of power grid data elements and digital technology advantages, providing technical services such as carbon tracing, carbon assessment, and scenario analysis for key industries and key regions, helping Guangdong steadily advance the transition from dual control of energy consumption to dual control of carbon emissions, and building a professional support platform for the green development of the Greater Bay Area through digital carbon management.
On top of the "dual carbon" digital foundation, Guangdong Power Grid adheres to putting scientific innovation first and open experimentation, building a digital power grid testing ground for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and continuously breaking through key technical bottlenecks for green and smart transformation. Guangdong Power Grid is simultaneously advancing computing-power and electricity coordination practices in multiple locations, breaking the traditional one-way supply-demand model between computing and electricity, forming a new two-way empowerment pattern of "computing power empowering grid operation and maintenance, and electricity supporting computing power development," injecting dual momentum into the upgrading of the digital economy industry.
Following the direction of smart energy use iteration, Guangdong Power Grid is piloting the transition from "smart single households" to "smart entire domains." Recently, Guangdong Power Grid has launched pilot programs in Guangzhou and the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone, anchoring on the innovative direction of "six-network" coordination, and exploring the construction of a new paradigm of smart energy use from the household unit to the entire domain space. Guangdong Power Grid will proactively explore the path of "six-network" coordination, systematically plan the construction of scenarios such as coordinated dispatch of hydro and electricity, electricity-carbon-computing coordination, "multi-station integration," urban underground lifelines, and green logistics energy services. It is expected that in 2026, the first batch of coordinated pilot demonstrations will be built within the China Southern Power Grid region, and it is expected that by 2030, the "six-network" coordinated service system of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area will be basically completed, with the number of "six-network" coordination models reaching 20, and the Greater Bay Area cumulatively building no fewer than 20 "multi-station integration" demonstration benchmarks.
Pooling Open, Collaborative Innovation Forces to Jointly Build a Bay Area Energy Community
On October 9, Guangdong Power Grid held an open release conference for real-world scenarios of the new power grid in Guangzhou. With the theme of "open sharing, win-win cooperation," and actively responding to the strategic deployment of building a strong energy nation, it released the first batch of 10 real-world application scenarios of the new power grid to the whole society. At the conference, Guangdong Power Grid proposed that building a world-class "power bay area" and decoding world-class challenges requires first-class technology and, even more, first-class partners. Opening real-world application scenarios of the new power grid to society aims to continuously expand the "innovation circle of friends," allowing cutting-edge technologies to be tested and implemented in the real scenarios of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and to find a place where one can fully exercise their talents (用武之地, yong wu zhi di - "use martial, place of").
Guangdong Power Grid is steadily advancing the layout of the digital power grid, continuously accelerating the deep implementation and shared win-win development of the digital power grid. Using digital power grid construction as a lever, it promotes the integration of artificial intelligence and Internet of Things technologies into the entire chain of power grid planning, construction, operation and maintenance, and services, creating a number of digital power grid demonstration scenarios in Hengqin, Nansha, and other areas. Relying on real-world application scenarios of the new power grid, it collaborates with universities and research institutions in the mainland and Hong Kong and Macao to carry out technological research, implementing demonstration projects such as "multi-station integration" comprehensive energy hubs and zero-carbon substations, and cultivating new energy business forms through the integration of science and industry.
Scientific and technological achievements ultimately rest on interconnection. Guangdong Power Grid, based on major cooperation platforms, continues to deepen energy connectivity in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao region. Guangdong Power Grid focuses on the major cooperation platforms of Hengqin and Nansha, simultaneously building high-quality power grids to support the implementation of Guangdong-Macao power cooperation projects. It continues to upgrade the "bay area one-stop service," opening up convenient channels for electricity service for Hong Kong and Macao users, densifying and optimizing the charging network adapted to Hong Kong and Macao vehicles, and better serving the "Hong Kong vehicles traveling north" and "Macao vehicles traveling north" initiatives. It actively supports the operation of the southern regional power market, provides local service guarantees for green power trading and cross-border green certificate business, promotes the co-construction and sharing of innovation platforms, explores mutual recognition of energy technology and service standards, and promotes the smooth flow of energy elements among the three regions, tightly binding the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao three regions together with the power link.
The tide rises on the Pearl River, and electricity surges through the bay area. In the next step, Guangdong Power Grid will continue to promote the construction of a world-class "power bay area" to high standards. According to the "Action Plan of Guangdong Power Grid Company for Promoting the Construction of a World-Class 'Power Bay Area'," focusing on the six dimensions of "abundant and high-quality supply, strong resilience, green and low-carbon development, leading technology, smart integration, and open sharing," and concentrating on the key indicators, key projects, and key tasks in the action plan, it will empower the construction of the world-class city cluster in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area with reliable power and high-quality services, striving to transform the vision of a world-class "power bay area" into visible and perceivable vivid reality.
Data source: China Southern Power Grid Guangdong Power Grid Company
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Listening to a book talk during the commute, hearing a career story in the gaps between household chores, opening a long video conversation on a weekend afternoon... Podcasts, this emerging digital content that completes expression through "two people and one microphone," are embedding themselves into our cultural life in different ways. Early podcasts were like a considerate old friend on the radio, with creators mostly "generating electricity out of love"; now they are gradually evolving from "listening" to "watching." Some public figures have launched video podcasts, where conversations lasting several hours attract more attention and also spark heated discussion about modes of expression and content quality.
From "niche" to "mainstream," from "listening" to "watching," what insights does the popularity of podcasts bring to content creation? While maintaining their own vitality, how can podcasts go further in meeting the cultural needs of the masses?
Fully leveraging the companionship advantages of sound
Sound is the basic way people communicate with one another; tone, rhythm, and pauses all convey feelings beyond words. Driving conversation with sound is the core of podcasts, and mobile listening with on-demand selection fully leverages the companion advantages of sound. Through podcasts, people can independently subscribe to programs that interest them and listen at their own pace. There is no need to keep staring at a screen, nor the pressure of immediate response; an episode can also be finished over several sittings, allowing the same question to gradually unfold across continuous listening... This unhurried approach preserves personal space while keeping listeners connected to the experiences of others.
Research shows that current domestic podcast audiences exhibit the characteristics of "high education level + urban youth + demand for in-depth content." Gaining knowledge and forming understanding are important reasons podcasts attract these listeners. Facing career choices, family relationships, or cultural phenomena, a long conversation of one to four hours can unfold the process by which a judgment is formed: what the speaker has experienced, what the basis is, and what unresolved questions remain. Follow-up questioning, supplementation, and revision of views gradually clarify the provenance of a judgment. Good conversation explains others' understanding clearly while also leaving room for listeners to think independently.
Vivid and concrete life experience endows cultural content with perceptible depth. For example, one program uses 46 minutes to present the labor and writing experience of "delivery poet" Wang Jibing, allowing listeners to understand the life behind the poetry. In Flowers in the Rock, host Chen Luyu engages in an approximately 80-minute conversation with picture-book painter Cai Gao, discussing rural teaching, painting creation, and the lives of three generations of women—her grandmother, her mother, and herself. The program tells listeners the provenance of a work and also guides listeners to seek answers in life.
In today's fast-paced era, podcasts characterized by "slowness" and "length" are developing rapidly and becoming an important part of the digital content ecosystem. This shows that communication methods that are easy to access can carry content that requires patience. A large number of programs focus on knowledge sharing and intellectual discussion, and content production can be completed through dialogue between two or three people, with relatively low production costs but relatively high information density. Media professionals, scholars, and knowledge creators have advantages in agenda-setting, logical analysis, and public discussion, making audio podcasts a new space for intellectual exchange.
Video pushes podcasts toward the masses
As a new combined form of medium-to-long video and social media, video podcasts push podcasts toward more audiences. Through platform support and creators' exploration, long conversations have gained more modes of presentation; images not only present emotions beyond language but also bring content that needs to be seen and displayed into the exchange, enhancing emotional connection and information density.
Why do video podcasts easily focus on celebrities? Behind this are dual drivers of production and dissemination. For producers, guests with camera experience and public recognition are more likely to become cooperation partners. For viewers encountering a program for the first time, a familiar face can become a reason to enter a long conversation. Celebrity participation expands a program's influence, but it does not mean it can retain listeners. Discovering new questions from familiar figures and bringing insufficiently told experiences into the conversation truly tests one's skill.
Nowadays, a complete podcast program is often edited into multiple short videos and disseminated across different platforms. If topic selection and questioning always revolve around emotions that are easier to cut into short clips and more likely to go viral, complex experience will be compressed into simple conclusions. The controversies some programs face stem precisely from this.
Facing a broader public means expression bears greater responsibility. A guest's account may become the basis on which listeners come to understand a certain profession or a certain group. To explain clearly how a person came to be where they are, one must also account for where they started; only by fully explaining the opportunities, costs, and constraints can listeners in different circumstances more easily understand the scope of application of an experience. The intimacy of podcasts helps programs build trust with listeners; only by being responsible for content and responsible to the public can this trust be maintained over the long term.
Letting more ordinary people become subjects of cultural expression
This year, the National Radio and Television Administration has included podcasts in the scope of quarterly and annual recommendation of excellent online audiovisual programs, providing demonstration and guidance for outstanding creation. The broader a podcast's audience, the more necessary it is for experiences from different professions, regions, and life circumstances to be heard. Measuring the growth of podcasts also requires looking at how many kinds of life they open up space for expression.
Vitality comes from more ordinary people becoming subjects of cultural expression. Phone recording, convenient editing, and publishing tools have lowered the technical threshold for creation. People can start from their own work and life, independently choose topics, and form sustained narration. Ordinary people can be interviewees and should also have the opportunity to become hosts. Letting more people be seen through podcasts and letting more lives be heard should become the pursuit of high-quality podcast production in the context of the new mass literature and art.
Depth comes from long-term accumulation in life. A craftsman's method of judging materials, or the everyday details familiar to a grassroots worker, may all contain blind spots in knowledge that others have never understood. Coming and Going in Quanzhou organizes local knowledge accumulated by cultural-history enthusiasts through long-term field surveys into a guide that can be listened to while walking, supplemented with accompanying graphic materials. The details that narrators have become so accustomed to that they take them for granted are precisely the starting point for others to understand a way of life. Evaluation and awards should encourage this kind of expression rooted in concrete life.
The entry point should lead to genuinely discovered opportunities. Platforms can organize themed recommendations so that niche topics find the listeners who truly need them. Let unfamiliar names, through solid content, become trustworthy voices. Such trust requires time to accumulate, and new programs also need sustained opportunities to be showcased.
Newcomers to program production may well be insiders in a certain field. Different positions in the same profession, or different periods of the same place, can all bring new material and new feelings. When these responses, after verification and organization, enter subsequent topic selection, listeners have the opportunity to move from being recipients of content to becoming new narrators. Such exchange will enable the companion relationship of podcasts to develop into a relationship of jointly understanding life and creating content.
For podcasts to go far, new narrators and new experiences must keep entering, and the impact of these expressions on the public must also be treated with care. Letting those willing to narrate obtain the conditions for expression, and letting solid works find audiences with whom they can communicate, will enable more people's life accumulation to become shared cultural resources. Leaving behind works worth listening to repeatedly is the "poetry and the faraway" of podcasts.
(The author is Director of the Research Department of the Online Video Research Center at Communication University of China)
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From teahouse storytelling venues to short videos and livestreams on mobile phones, quyi (traditional Chinese folk performing arts) does not rely on elaborate props, large bands, or splendid stages to tell audiences tales of the rise and fall of history and the warmth and coldness of human relationships. It exists both in leisure and entertainment and folk customs and rituals, and also in people's laughter, tears, local accents, and social interactions. In what form should quyi enter contemporary life? The 12th China Quyi Festival provides a vivid example.
Going to the people. Eight performances covered theaters, campuses, ancient towns, squares, and other venues. Among them, the "Garden of Quyi Gems · Peony Blossoming" Peony Award winners' benefit performance went to Yankou Ancient Town in Wusheng County, Sichuan, performing beside stone steps and an old wharf in a "new street-performance" style, allowing audiences to feel the live warmth of quyi in everyday spaces.
Highlighting contemporary expression. The opening ceremony used the Eastern Han Dynasty drumming-and-singing storytelling figurine as a guide, linking together five chapters on the Central Plains, Jiangnan, Lingnan, the North, and the West; Pingtan met with Northwest Hua'er folk songs, and Dongkeng Muyu songs incorporated modern rap and trendy music.
Approaching the "next generation." Children's kuaiban (bamboo clapper) piece "Spicy Ballads" took the stage, students from Sichuan and Chongqing made a "three-year pact," and Shen Fa performed the role of "Wang Baozhang" on stage together with his disciple Wang Xun, vividly presenting inheritance through intergenerational interaction.
The practice of this year's festival demonstrates the unique value of quyi dissemination. But for quyi to truly become embedded in the fabric of daily life, it still faces some practical challenges, such as how to connect external impetus with quyi's endogenous development. This is precisely the starting point for reflection that this year's festival has raised.
The logic of festivals is short-term concentrated display, while the logic of daily life is sustained integration. Looking across the country, some places are still satisfied with "holding events and putting on a show," failing to transform the atmosphere of watching performances into cultural scenes that are visible at a glance and accessible at any time, with the venue going cold as soon as the show ends; in some scenic areas' cultural-tourism integration, quyi is one-sidedly treated as a means of attracting visitors, with storytelling reduced to background noise. Quyi is an art of dialect and locality, yet in many works today, the retreat of dialect and the fading of regional character are serious problems. Some cross-genre efforts innovate for the sake of innovation, blindly chasing the mixing of light, sound, special effects, and different performance techniques, losing the texture of oral narrative and leaving content hollow and superficial. Furthermore, intergenerational inheritance cannot stop at the momentary scenes of master and disciple sharing the stage or children performing; it must also connect with young people's affinity for local culture, using the "grammar" they are familiar with to tell the humor and wisdom within quyi.
For quyi to enter daily life, the fundamental task is to cultivate endogenous momentum: on one end, rely on institutional guarantees for venues, spaces, and talent; on the other, hold fast to the essence of storytelling and singing, guard against routinization sliding into vulgarization, and prevent quyi from losing its subjectivity in integrated settings. This dialectical relationship can be observed in the follow-up plans of Guang'an, the host city. Before the festival, a series of performances warmed up the audience; after the festival, plans call for "quyi every month, distinctive features at every venue." Taking advantage of the festival, more than a hundred quyi venues were newly built, a four-tier performance network spanning city, county, township, and village was established, and plans were made to strengthen local brands and explore professional venue operations. Government departments have built the platform and created conditions for activating vitality. But external conditions do not automatically generate endogenous momentum: whether venues and brands can play their role still depends on whether local troupes can independently create and independently plan, transforming the platform built by policy into a force rooted in life. This is also a common challenge faced by many regions that host various festivals and events.
Festivals can activate scenes, but they cannot replace the emotional connection of live storytelling and singing performances. Whether festival traffic can be converted into cultural stock depends on the key question of transforming the energy gathered by hosting the festival into a long-term mechanism for nurturing venues, polishing works, cultivating talent, and nourishing audiences. Administrative forces especially need to complete the progression of roles from "igniter" to "safety net" to "guardian": focusing on value guidance, policy supply, overall coordination, support for creation and performance, and basic safeguards, while leaving content production and dissemination operations to professional teams operating on stable mechanisms. The practice of the "Majie Storytelling Venue" livestream account can serve as a reference: local government provides support and a safety net for the normal operation of the "Majie Storytelling Fair," while the account's accumulation of online audiences relies on the operations team's active exploration that respects the artistic characteristics of long-form storytelling and thoroughly grasps the laws of online communication. Performing troupes should retain fixed venues for trial performances of new works and regular appearances; livestream rooms can also become contemporary "new storytelling venues." In creation, stable mechanisms should be established to shift realistic themes toward delicate depictions of ordinary people's life states and emotions.
The vitality of quyi is forever rooted in the folk scene. Adhering to the people-centered creative orientation, upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, and taking root in the hustle and bustle of everyday life, quyi can find a way of survival that truly integrates into daily life and continue to nourish the spiritual world of the masses.
(The author is a research fellow at the Quyi Research Institute of the Chinese National Academy of Arts)
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The documentary Long March: A Rendezvous of Youth unfolds its narrative across the spaces of the Red Army's eight rendezvous points—at Muhuang, Chongxi, Maogong, Yongping, Ganquan, Ganzi, Huining, and Jiangtaibao. "Rendezvous" carries a thematic allegory: the past and the present, the youth of those years and the youth of today, the youth of wartime and the youth of peacetime, ideals and convictions—all collide in the "rendezvous," forming a dialogue between history and reality.
Seven students and young people from Peking University, Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, Minzu University of China, and other institutions went deep into the various Long March rendezvous sites. They are seekers, visitors, and on-site recorders, as well as narrators, witnesses, and storytellers. Following in their footsteps, viewers likewise embark on the long, long march, feeling as if being personally present on the scene (身临其境, shen lin qi jing - "body, enter, its, scene") in a sense of authenticity, and, facing the sites of those years, the descendants of martyrs, and revolutionary relics, receive the baptism of the Long March spirit.
When the lens turns to the ordinary soldiers and commanders of the Red Army—known or unknown, those who completed the march in victory or fell in heroic death—the focus on the individual, the micro-level, and the concrete builds a holistic understanding of the Long March. In Zhangjun Village, Zishan Township, Yudu County, dozens of people joined the Red Army, many of them without even a formal given name; they embarked on the revolutionary journey so that their elders and fellow villagers would no longer be bullied by landlords, warlords, and masters. Among them was Zeng Yongya, who later became a founding major general; all his life, he never forgot the 34 fellow villagers who enlisted together with him. Teachers and students from the Academy of Fine Arts of Anhui Normal University visited villagers throughout Yudu County in Jiangxi, trying to complete pencil portraits of Red Army martyrs who left behind no paintings, no photographs, and not even recorded names, so that their spirits in heaven might see today's happy life of wind-blown grain rippling in a thousand waves—a scene that moves viewers to tears. Yesterday and today are linked by the lives of these children "who went north and sent no word back."
The documentary recounts a battle that took place at Kuniushan eight days before the rendezvous. More than 800 Red Army soldiers covering the main force's breakout fought to the last moment and, running completely out of ammunition and food (弹尽粮绝, dan jin liang jue - "bullets, exhausted, grain, exhausted"), leapt off the cliff together. The historical site, the descendants of survivors, and precious relics meticulously restore this magnificent and heroic in scale (气壮山河, qi zhuang shan he - "spirit, mighty, mountain, river") feat of heroism. They followed the first systematic archaeological survey of Long March relics on Mount Jiajin conducted by the National Cultural Heritage Administration, using more than a hundred unearthed artifacts to verify the Red Army's route across the mountain; for the first time in a television documentary, they revealed the handwritten "ideological autobiography" of Liu Jinshan, one of the "Twenty-Two Warriors" who seized the Luding Bridge, and watched him describe the long, long journey in sixteen plain, simple, and fearless words; four letters written by Red Army soldiers on the eve of the Long March reveal the soldiers' everyday family affection, attachment to the land, and calm resolve in that time and place... One artifact after another, one detail after another, demonstrates the documentary's moving power, which is more real than any work of fiction.
Not far from the site of the Huajiang Chain Bridge, which the Red Army held while crossing the Beipan River, the Huajiang Canyon Bridge, appearing suddenly and unexpectedly (横空出世, heng kong chu shi - "across, empty, sky, emerge"), appears in the same frame. This modern bridge—holding two records, the world's highest bridge and the world's longest-span mountain bridge, "first both horizontally and vertically"—has not only the practical function of spatial connection but also the emotional function of temporal connection. Two generations of bridge builders, in the same canyon, have written their shining youth in different ways. The documentary, too, is like a bridge, linking the past and the present.
Separated by more than ninety years, young people of different times in the same space have come together because of Long March: A Rendezvous of Youth, paying tribute to the martyrs, to history, and to ideals, and deeply feeling the revolutionary pride of "The Red Army fears not the trials of the distant march; a thousand mountains and ten thousand rivers are treated as nothing."
(The author is Vice Chairman of the China Film Association)
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After the TV drama Ask the Heart, we presented The Little Town's Good Remedy (see stills in the photo) to the audience, as if carrying the same question but walking two entirely different paths. Both are medical-themed, both rooted in reality, but one delves deep into professional expertise, while the other stretches toward the breadth of life. The solutions are completely different, yet both ultimately land on the same original intention in creation.
The original intention behind Ask the Heart was simple: at the time, there were quite a few medical-themed dramas, of varying quality. We wanted to make a true "medical drama" — professional and authentic. During that period, the core creative team embedded themselves in top-tier hospitals, shadowing and accompanying doctors on rounds, working night shifts and outpatient clinics with cardiac surgeons, watching them stand beside the operating table for over ten hours, observing their restraint and difficulty when talking with family members, and witnessing their silence when they made every possible effort yet still could not keep a patient alive.
The scene where Lin Yi performs heart surgery on a critically ill patient left a deep impression on me. The entire operation went very smoothly, but because the patient's family concealed the medical history before the surgery, the patient suddenly suffered a massive intracranial hemorrhage afterward. Despite all-out rescue efforts, the patient ultimately could not leave the intensive care unit. We did not rewrite this ending for the sake of "satisfaction." Because real clinical practice is exactly like this — medicine has its boundaries, doctors have their limitations, and not every effort can be rewarded with a perfect outcome.
In Ask the Heart, there is no miracle doctor with a "cheat code," only a group of ordinary people making every possible effort within the boundaries of their profession — Zhou Xiaofeng's restraint and steadfastness, Fang Xiaoran's gentleness and sense of responsibility, Lin Yi's sharpness and sincerity. They grow weary, they agonize, they make mistakes, and they also, after repeated grievances and regrets, stand back at the operating table. What we want to convey is that doctors and patients have never been opposing sides; the only common enemy of both is disease. This is also our creative principle: do not sensationalize conflict, do not manufacture anxiety, give people hope, and provide a way out.
If Ask the Heart was answering the question "how should a medical drama be made professionally," then The Little Town's Good Remedy is asking "what else can a medical drama become?"
After Ask the Heart concluded, we reflected: in the public's impression, medical stories always focus on the race between life and death in top-tier hospitals, but the broader medical reality of China lies hidden in the small hospitals at the grassroots level. When ordinary people seek medical treatment, they are not only treating illness and pain, but also the livelihoods and worries of daily life — yet these fragmented stories are rarely told. So The Little Town's Good Remedy turns its lens on a grassroots hospital in a small northeastern town, with life at its core and warmth as its foundation, telling the story of a young doctor who returns home after setbacks and a group of people stuck in life, and how they accept and warm one another in the small-town hospital. We want to tell the audience: the true good remedy is not only in the pharmacy, but also in the mutual care between people.
There is a scene in The Little Town's Good Remedy that warms me every time I watch it. Zhou Zheng suffers from glioblastoma, and Liu Zhengliang, who provides the diagnosis and treatment plan, is also moved by this young man who, "knowing his days are numbered, still lists his wish list and seriously lives each day." One is trapped in past trauma, the other faces the end of life directly — the two support each other and heal each other.
The stories of Ask the Heart and The Little Town's Good Remedy have been told. Some viewers compare their differences: one is fast-paced, the other is slow living; one questions the original intention at the boundary of life and death, the other settles life into the everyday. But in my view, at their core they are both creative practices of warm realism. Ask the Heart does not avoid the rules and limitations of the medical system, or the powerlessness and regret of doctors; The Little Town's Good Remedy also does not avoid the talent gap and resource insufficiency in grassroots healthcare, or the departure and homesickness of small-town youth. We do not deliberately beautify reality, but we absolutely do not peddle suffering either; rather, we leave an outlet of hope for the story.
When writing doctors, one must see that beneath the white coat, they are also ordinary people with families, emotions, and vulnerabilities; when writing patients, one must see the life circumstances behind their illnesses. Good realistic creation is not about tearing open scars for people to see, but within real predicaments, letting the audience see kindness, see understanding, and see the warmth of mutual goodwill between people.
The creative boundaries of realism are far wider than imagined. One can write the tension of life-and-death races, or the warmth of a steady and continuous stream; one can stand on the high ground of professionalism, or plunge into the hustle and bustle of life.Taking root in truth, writing with warmth, and earnestly telling the story of every ordinary person well — that is the most simple and most precious good remedy in creation.
(The author is the producer of the TV dramas Ask the Heart and The Little Town's Good Remedy)
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In the opera world there is an elder known as the "living dictionary of Peking opera," who has taught for more than 80 years — the renowned Peking opera artist, educator, and director Chi Jinsheng.
Chi Jinsheng was born into an opera family in 1922. At age 9 he began studying opera under the teacher Cao Lianxiao, and at age 10 he took the stage performing juvenile roles. After several years of study and practice, just past the age of 20 he was already teaching at training troupes such as Rongchun Society, serving as a "young instructor." Li Fuchun, a professor at the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, once said: "I learned my Losing the Seal, Rescuing from Fire in the training troupe from Senior Brother Jinsheng." Professor Li was a student of the Rongchun Society, only six years younger than Chi Jinsheng.
During his youth, Chi Jinsheng studied, performed, and taught simultaneously. In particular, for the performances of Ma Lianliang, he and his close friend Yan Shaopeng attended every single one. It was in this way, by following along, that he learned the Ma school repertoire. Loving the Ma school and being himself from an opera family, Chi Jinsheng trained together with Ma Lianliang's eldest son, Ma Chongren. From his teens he came and went freely at the Ma household, receiving giving earnest instructions and guidance (耳提面命, ertímiànmìng - "ear, lift; face, command") from Ma Lianliang himself. The master and his disciples would often return home after the shows ended and talk at length, studying the arrangement, refinement, and improvement of new plays to be staged. Through years of immersion in watching performances and repeated observation and imitation of each play, he came to know Ma's habits and the rules and style of the Ma school repertoire by heart. Having personally witnessed decades of Ma's stage practice, Chi Jinsheng became a witness to the founding of the Ma school art.
In 1956, Chi Jinsheng joined the Beijing Peking Opera Troupe, undertaking stage supervision for Ma school repertoire. During the period when Ma Lianliang served as principal of the Beijing Opera School, Chi Jinsheng always taught on the master's behalf, transmitting the Ma school repertoire. For each play he taught, he would go to the Ma household to seek instructions on teaching method, following the master's directive: "Teach according to my early performance style; it is beneficial for the children to build their foundation." When each play was learned and rehearsed in full costume, Ma would be invited to review, guide, and accept it. For many Ma school plays still performed today, such as Spring and Autumn Brush, Losing the Seal, Rescuing from Fire, Black Dragon Courtyard, and Guangtai Village, Ma Lianliang himself left no complete recordings or visual documentation, only scattered arias. That these Ma school plays have been able to be richly and widely passed down is owed to Chi Jinsheng's decades of continuously compiling scripts, teaching at the school, and spreading them within the troupe.
He said that following the Ma school and singing Ma school plays are not the same thing. Among the students he taught were both those who followed the Ma school, such as Zhang Xuejin and Feng Zhixiao, and those who followed other schools yet loved the Ma school and learned to sing its plays, such as Li Chongshan and Huang Shixiang. As long as one loved Ma school art and studied seriously, he would teach everything he had without reservation.
In the 1960s, Chi Jinsheng shifted to directing work and studied directing at the Central Academy of Drama. Shajiabang both preserved the essence of operatic stylization and expressed the vitality of modern characters, making pioneering exploratory practice for the ancient art of Peking opera to represent modern life. As director, he poured his heart and wisdom into elevating and refining this play. In 1979, Chi Jinsheng selected Wu Zuguang's play Three Strikes on Tao Sanchun, which had a considerable comic style, and on the basis of the script fully mobilized his directing skill, bringing characters such as Tao Sanchun and Zheng Ziming vividly to life on stage. Three Strikes on Tao Sanchun was lively, interesting, and fresh and novel; within less than a year of its debut it was performed more than 200 times. It was later made into an opera film by the Changchun Film Studio and became popular throughout the country.
The China Peking Opera Audio-Video Matching Project was a major undertaking to rescue the "seed" of Peking opera, and Chi Jinsheng served as chief director. The project covered more than 460 plays in total, and each play and each step involved many points of knowledge. Some wire recordings had to be painstakingly assembled and spliced by hand; some recordings lacked the "gongs and drums," and to maintain consistency of sound, the same "gongs and drums" had to be found from the original recordings wherever possible to fill the gaps; the costumes, props, and stage arrangements of each play all had to be clearly specified. Chi Jinsheng, already past seventy at the time, followed each play from the editing of the recordings all the way through to the rehearsals and the completion of the video recording. Over more than 20 years of recording, he was, from beginning to end, devoting oneself wholehearted to a task (呕心沥血, ǒu xīn lì xuè - "vomit, heart; expend, blood").
He also participated in the recording of three plays. The Strange Meeting of Two Beauties was the first play for which he participated in the matching. Because he had always stood in for the role of Li Qi in rehearsals, Mei Baojiu, who matched the image of Mei Lanfang, several times proposed that Chi Jinsheng play Li Qi in the second version. The Three Character Classic had not been seen on stage for many years, and no one but he himself could match it. The major Ma school play Breeze Pavilion was at the time nearly lost, and at the age of 80, full of deep feeling, he matched the image of his late master. In particular, disregarding his advanced age, he completed two "stiff falls" without a stunt double, and the Ma school's "three marvels" — throwing the staff, flinging off the hat, and falling to the ground — were done in one continuous, smooth motion (一气呵成, yī qì hē chéng - "one, breath, exhale; complete"), earning the admiration of his peers.
Chi Jinsheng joined the Party at age 64 and always held himself to the standard of an exemplary Party member. In 2011, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chinese Opera Performing Arts Society. Throughout his life he was low-key and even-tempered, indifferent to fame and fortune, a person of modest and refined character (谦谦君子, qiānqiān jūnzǐ - "modest, modest; gentleman"). His book Ma Lianliang is a primary source for research on Ma Lianliang. He also compiled and published many Ma school scripts and articles analyzing the performance of the repertoire, and at age 95 published Scattered Notes on This Life — A Record of Opera Affairs and Experiences, which may be called an archive of Ma school art.
On October 31, 2026, Chi Jinsheng passed away at the advanced age of 104. This great master of the opera and Peking opera worlds — his character and conduct, his artistic works, like a gentle, nourishing influence on people (春风化雨, chūnfēng huàyǔ - "spring, wind; transform, rain") — will forever remain in our hearts.
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